Google Desktop 3

With the latest version of Google Desktop, several new features and new concerns arise. Desktop 3, announced on their blog today, gives users the ability to drag panels from the sidebar to place them elsewhere on the desktop. Sidebar content can be sent via email or chat to other users. Desktop 3 now indexes zipped files, added an advanced search form, and allows more advanced search commands. The controversial new feature is the use of Google servers to enable searching across multiple computers (say your home and office desktops). This is not enabled by default, but if it is, data has to be sent to Google servers for this to work. Anyone with concerns about sharing such data should probably not enable this. New search commands include under: for searching a specific folder and machine: to specify which computer (if search across computers is enabled). And on the search side, Desktop 3 allows searching across multiple computers by storing