I was playing around with IE the other day for the first time in years and noticed when I searched using the google search toolbox it found things in my files in my comptuer!! I was pretty stunned at first even though I quickly realised it didn't mean they were indexing my files for anyone to find. But then later I noticed when I installed the google desktop search on my Vista quick access bar that when I searched using that it brought up search finds from documents that I'd actually not saved or had saved and then reopened and saved again after changing them and it seemed to still have the deleted content indexed! Is it just me or is anyone else bothered by that? Is there anything I can do to stop google indexing every bloomin' thing I type?
throw your computer out your window, unsubscribe to your internet service provider, fake your death, run.. hide!
get firefox, and find tons of good proxy clients through their add-on services. theres one i used to use but i cant remmeber the name cuz i found mac's Safari faster, but its something like Vidalla, Vandala, w/e. tons of stuff though, i definitely recommend it
i use ixquick to search. i haven't trusted google since i found out where they got their name..... http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html they were in the gates building! damned conspirators.....'you rub our back, bill gates, and we'll rub yours.'
Oh yeah! Google has really given M/S an easy time of it over the past 10yrs. What with totally humiliating them in the search and online advert market share!
of course, as orwell pointed out in '1984', you realize this does not mean that alliances haven't changed quicker than hugh hefner's bunnie buddies? publicly 'enemies'; privately allied...this is a pretty good tactic usually. i trust neither of them.
Sounds like Google indexed the shadow copies that are automatically created in Vista. Look for a program called Shadow Explorer so you can manage/view and delete/restore files from the shadow copies.
ixquick has a transparrent proxy option which rules btw google records all your searches etc also datamines
Google is attempting to take over the world one step at a time. One of the few 'providers' out there that 'hands' over services without actually asking for anything in return... they are in your home, and your Android based OS phone. It's a losing battle...