Google released another whiz-bang widget, the Google Desktop Search utility. It searches your emails, files, IM conversations and web history, indexing them for your enjoyment and googling needs.
While wannabe polymath’s such as myself rejoice with this new product, horny 14-year old boys are writhing in pain — knowing that their secret porno collection has just been exposed.
In retrospect, there are a number of gizmos that I would have loved to have had as a kid (like a cell phone or laptop) and this piece of free software definitely ranks up there, right next to the BeOS.
Note: here is my year-old quasi pseudo prediction that a feature like this was in the works.
Thank the lord I’m not 14 anymore.
Comment by Brandon Wardlaw — October 17, 2004 @ 12:28 am