Re: Google Desktop Search

[Dave King <davefd () davewking com>]

If you noticed during the install, it gives you the opportunity to 
include https pages in web history caching.  When it said this it made 
me curious since I didn't know it indexed web history at all, but 
apparently it does and this option can be disabled on the preferences 
page if you don't want it. 

I tried to reproduce what you said happened with Hotmail and it did 
index the messages I have viewed and brought them up in the search 
results, and it did let me view a cached copy without a 
username/password, but it did not allow me to access the real message in 
my account without my username/password.  Are you set to login 
automagically?

Dave King
http://www.thesecure.net

DogoBrazil wrote:

> Hi everybody!
>
> I decided to test Google Desktop Search yesterday, 10-14-04. It's 
> supposed to seach almost any kind of information "inside my 
> hard-drive". In the beginning I put my nick to play with, Dogo. The 
> research came with a bit more than I expected 'cause the engine  went 
> to some webmail based accounts: Yahoo and MSN. I could click in the 
> results and opened my Yahoo Mail inbox page without a password. Maybe 
> some password lost in my HD? Maybe some page cached? I really don't 
> know yet but didn't like to see my mail exposed this way.
> Well, I just used for maybe 20 minutes until the index was being 
> prepared. I uninstalled the tool.
> Did someone try it? Any opinion?
>
> Cheers!
>
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