Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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It’s interesting to see how Google approached a problem and Microsoft approaches it. The latest version of Google Desktop has a feature that allows you to share your index across multiple machines so you can search for things and find them anywhere you might have them. They do this by using the Google servers as a relay. In the past I’ve posted about how you can do the same thing with FolderShare (free from Microsoft) and Windows Desktop Search (free from Microsoft).
In Scenario A, you are giving all your information to Google for a temporary time period, but you are giving them this information non the less. In scenario B, FolderShare is acting as a P2P based distributed search agent doing the query across any of your machines that are currently online and running FolderShare and Windows Desktop Search. Your information is encrypted and traveling between your computers.
Personally, I would never chose the Google approach.