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December 14, 2004

Gartner Tells Businesses To Stay Away from Google Desktop Search

In Google desktop search not enterprise-ready from News.com, you'll read about Gartner telling businesses to avoid GDS in a corporate setting.

"We have no problem with it being used for personal use," said Gartner research director Maurene Grey. "Our concern is (that) when it is used in a corporation, we have some security and privacy issues. Google says it will collect only nonpersonal data, but in a corporation how can you monitor what's being collected?"

You can read about how desktop search tools might eventually become a new target for virus writers from News.com.

Posted by Gary Price on December 14, 2004 5:58 PM

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