Date: 12/14/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: google

Occassionally Google Desktop Search contacts internet, even when I am not using it. This makes me nervous. It feels intrusive to have something which can view and possibly ( not that I would doubt Google of commiting such an act... or would I?) send critical financial information out of the computer. I have blocked [...]

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