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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley

As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.

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Google Desktop Search Terms and Conditions

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley

As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.

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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Online search engine leader Google Inc. is setting its sights on your computer desktop with a new software program that promises to scour through the clutter of documents, e-mails, instant messages and other files stored on hard drives.

The free desktop search program, unveiled Thursday at http://desktop.google.com, marks Google's latest attempt to become even more indispensable to the millions of people who entrust the company to find virtually anything on the Web.

It's a not surprising step into a crucial realm.

Managing infoglut is an increasing challenge for computer users, and the program gives Google an important head start on Microsoft Corp., which is working on a similar file-searching tool that it recently said would not be ready for the next version of its Windows operating system promised for 2006.

"We think of this (program) as the photographic memory of your computer," said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. "It's pretty comprehensive. If there's anything you once saw on your computer screen, we think you should be able to find it again quickly."

This may give Mountain View-based Google, the industry leader in Internet search, a significant competitive advantage in luring traffic from chief rivals Microsoft's MSN. and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), both of which have been improving their technology.

Although the program can be used exclusively offline to probe hard drives, Google designed it so it will meld with its online search engine. Google.com visitors who have new program installed on their computer will see a "desktop" tab above the search engine toolbar and all their search results will include a section devoted to the hard drive in addition to the Web.

"The integration with the search engine is the key to this product and what makes it pretty fantastic," said Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li, who previewed the new product.

Google is betting the program will expand its search engine audience and encourage even more online searches than it already processes — a pattern that would yield advertising revenue, the company's main moneymaker.

The company's financial success already has turned its stock into a hot commodity. Google's shares closed Wednesday at $140.90, a 66 percent gain from their initial public offering price of $85 less than two months ago.

Leery of raising privacy concerns that have shadowed its recently introduced e-mail service, Google is emphasizing that the desktop search program doesn't provide a peephole into the hard drive, even when the product connects with the online search engine.

"It's totally private," Mayer said. "Google does not know what happens when the hard drive is searched."

Pam Dixon, executive director for the World Privacy Forum, said she will withhold judgment until she thoroughly reviews the new program. "The key question will be if this thing ever phones home to the mother ship."

Despite her reservations, Dixon expects Google's desktop search program to have mass appeal. "I think most people think of their computer hard drives as these black holes of information, so this could be of some real value," she said. "

Other desktop search programs are already available, such as X1 Search from X1 Technologies Inc. of Pasadena, but Google is the first company among high-tech's household names to try to make it easier for people sift through the mishmash of files, e-mails, and instant messages on personal computers.

Google began working on the program, code named "Fluffy Bunny", about a year ago, Mayer said, in response to a familiar refrain: "Why can't I search my computer as easily as I can search the Web?"

In addition to Microsoft, AOL is reported to also be working on a desktop search program and most industry analysts believe Yahoo Inc. will develop something similar.


Google is allowing people to download its program for free. Currently compatible only with the Windows operating system, it requires about 10 minutes to download on a dial-up connection and takes some five or six hours to index a computer's hard drive.

Each program user can select the types of information to be indexed and searched.

The product can pore through the files using Microsoft Office applications and several types of e-mail programs, including Microsoft's Outlook and Hotmail and Yahoo.

Google's desktop search still isn't compatible with the company's new e-mail service, called Gmail. If desired, the program automatically saves all AOL instant message conversations and all Web pages stored on a computer.

Google's desktop search program is so powerful, Li said, that computer users should carefully consider what kind of material they want indexed, particularly if they're sharing a computer with family, friends or office colleagues.

"People are going to have to think pretty carefully about this," Li said. "There are some things that you probably don't want indexed on a computer."
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I have thought, NO! Not me. It's spyware. The indexing of your drive and then the downloading of it to Google. And the programs that find spyware will not find this as the program will never make the "spyware list of programs" as you let it in. You asked for it to be downloaded to your computer and so it can't be called spyware, it just a program that does the work you asked it to do and then tells it all to Google.

How do you spell google, B I G B R O T H E R.
You remember, 1984, the book. I'm going to try and kept the fox out of my hen house. And yes, this blog is on a Google Co. owned Blog site. Which they don't DO much to tell you about that. And yes it is free, GEE, I wonder why? Most people make a list of email addresses to have thier blog go to. That's what Google wanted. The world is ONE BIG NETWORK now, and he who knows how to get to more of the network then anyone else WINS.


MY ADVICE endeavors at keen.com. The number is 1-800-275-5336 (800-ask-keen) + ext. 0329063 for tech stuff, 0329117 for running a small business, and 0329144 on investing. Want to CHAT, I use Yahoo's IM as the_web_ster. View me in the Friends & Family part of webcamnow.com, just click on "view cams", then in the Java window click on WebcamNow Communities drop down arrow & select Friends & Family. Under the live webcams look for & click on me "the_webster".

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley

As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.

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By ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA
Washington Post
Posted: Oct. 12, 2004

San Francisco - Chuck Harris said he remembers when the Internet was fun and he would spend hours reading his favorite news sites, checking the church calendar, browsing the shops. Then, a few weeks ago, he lost control of his computer. It turned into a giant electronic billboard.

A company he didn't recognize took over his Web browser. Pop-up windows tried to download stuff for which he didn't ask. Strange icons kept appearing, offering low home mortgage loans and sexual enhancement pills.

Harris spent days trying to fix the computer, but the programs had multiplied to a point at which he couldn't run anything else, and he decided to give up on the machine. Last week, the retired aerospace engineer from Yorktown, Va., 68, shelled out $1,000 for a new computer, but now he and his wife, Dorothy, use it only when absolutely necessary.

"We have just about quit using the computer," he said. "It isn't worth the aggravation."

As if computer users didn't have enough to worry about with hackers, viruses, spam and other online menaces, a new scourge has arrived.

Millions of consumers such as Harris have been struggling with a recent surge in what computer experts call spyware or adware.

The terms apply to a broad range of programs that users download from the Internet, usually without intending to do so. Unlike the occasional pop-up ad, these electronic hitchhikers are hidden programs that stay on the computer's hard drive. They keep serving up advertisements, redirecting browsers to certain Web pages or reporting the computer user's movements and personal information. Or all the above.
Gates wants solution

Some spyware comes attached to free, brand-name software that users want and install themselves - instant-message, video-player and file-sharing programs, for example. A reference to the spyware might be included in the legal jargon of one of those on-screen installation agreements that computer users routinely accept with the casual click of a "yes" button.

Other programs come unbidden as a side effect of browsing shady sites. Many appear on people's machines simply because they are connected to the Internet.

Experts estimated that tens of thousands of spyware and adware programs circulate on the Internet. For now, the problem of such unauthorized software almost exclusively affects Microsoft Windows users. It's by far the most popular operating system, and the same features that make it so versatile make it easier for intruders to run programs on it secretly.

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said this month that although a virus has never infected his computer, he's been surprised to find on it many spyware and adware programs that he never authorized. He said he has directed the company to launch a project to create a "cure."

The National Cyber Security Alliance, a partnership between the tech industry and the Homeland Security Department, estimates that 90% of computers using high-speed Internet connections have collected at least one spyware or adware program, causing a loss in productivity, extra customer support and repairs.

Members of Congress said their offices are fielding an increasing number of constituent complaints about the problem. Two bills that aim to address the problem passed the House last week.
Firms back legislation

One bill calls for civil fines of up to $3 million for those who use spyware to defraud consumers. That bill also would require companies to post more conspicuous notifications that their software might come with adware.

The other bill would allocate $10 million for the Justice Department to fight spyware.

Technology companies, many of which have resisted regulation in the past, have rallied behind a spyware bill.

Colleen Ryan, a Dell Inc. spokeswoman, said the programs have done damage both in dollars and reputation to the technology industry. Since August 2003, she said, customer support calls to Dell related to spyware have gone from slightly more than 2% to 10% to 15%.

She said many customers assume that their problems are with the company's hardware rather than spyware. "We have to tell them, 'It's not your computer,' " she said.

Using a computer was supposed to get easier, not harder. At the height of the dot-com boom, companies promised "plug and play" functionality so that even "dummies" could use the latest technologies to download music, create family videos and build blogs.

But along the way, something changed. The Internet got a lot more dangerous, forcing consumers to take on more responsibility for protecting their machines.

If Internet users got grades for the effort they take to maintain their computers, Harris would be a straight-A student.

He installed a firewall to protect against hackers, a virus protection program to stop online bugs. He made sure to use e-mail on the Web rather than a program that downloads it - and possible spam and other annoying or nefarious agents - to his computer. He avoided installing instant messenger and chat-room programs, many of which are known to be associated with adware.

"All, apparently, to no avail," he said.
'Vanilla' vulnerability

It is difficult for even the most technologically savvy to avoid the problem.

In June, Philippe Ombredanne, a systems administrator and programmer from Menlo Park, Calif., bought a new computer. He said he was feeling lazy, so he put off installing security software for a day. When he woke up, the computer was infected with one virus and about 30 spyware or adware programs, forcing him to erase data and programs from his hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch.

"A vanilla computer with no protection has no chance on the Internet anymore," he said.

The SANS Institute, a computer security research center in Bethesda, Md., has studied what it calls the "survival time" of an unprotected computer hooked up to the Internet. A year ago, the average time before it was compromised was about 55 minutes. Today, it's 20 minutes.
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See, it not just me. Get a router and some spyware!


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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley

As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.

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So what does this mean for the majority of Windows users, who aren't even on Windows XP? Microsoft officials have said these users must upgrade to Windows XP Service Pack 2 to gain the new security and capability improvements in IE.

I think Microsoft has it at least partially right. A lot of users will decide they want improved features and increased security in their Web browser, and they will decide to upgrade—but not to Windows XP SP 2.

We've already seen the beginning trickle of users moving away from IE: For the first time in years, IE's market share has dropped slightly. But I predict that this trickle will soon become a full-fledged torrent.

In fact, I fully expect that, a year from now, IE's market share will be below 75 percent. (Check me on that in October 2005.) And that's being conservative because this would be a smaller drop than the Netscape browser ever took once it began to lose share. (And Netscape the company never did anything as stupid as telling users they could get new features only by using one operating system.)

I know what some of you are thinking: You geeks have been going on and on about how great Mozilla, Firefox and Opera, etc., are and how decrepit IE is, but regular people don't care.

Up until a few months ago, I probably would have agreed with that. But our alternative-browser mantra has now escaped the realm of geekdom and moved into the real world, where real people are recommending it to their real friends.

Following are two cases in point.

At a cookout I hosted this summer, one of my neighbors started telling me about his computer. He said he had been having serious problems with viruses and "spy stuff" and that a friend had helped him take care of the problems. This friend cleaned up my neighbor's computer and, most significantly, moved my neighbor to Mozilla.

My neighbor said that he couldn't be happier with Mozilla and that he hadn't had any virus problems in months. He said he's also been recommending Mozilla to his other friends.

Vendors can learn a lot from Mozilla's open-source adventures. Click here to read more.

Just a couple of weeks ago, I was having lunch at a local Chinese restaurant when a group of women at the table next to me began talking about computers. The discussion started with the standard complaint session, but then one of the women began talking about how she had started using "this Firefox thing" and how much she liked it and how secure it was. The other women at the table asked her to e-mail the Web address to them so they could get Firefox, too.

These kinds of experiences are, to me, key. Technology adoption really picks up when recommendations are made not by techies but by regular people to regular people. And, despite what some analysts think, people will download new programs—heck, the ability to download new programs is one of the main reasons most people have an Internet connection.

On top of all this is the recent news that Google is thinking about releasing its own Web browser. If you doubt this would have a big impact, think again. If everyone who currently uses the Google tool bar were to download and use a new Google Web browser, a sizable chunk would be taken out of IE's market share.

For more on the browser wars, read Peter Coffee's column, "Browser Vendors Need to Quit Monkeying Around."

Of course, some will say that Microsoft doesn't care if this happens—that its recent strategy has been to devalue the Web browser in order to move people to smart clients in its Office and Outlook applications.

But, if that's true, Microsoft's strategy was to devalue all Web browsers, not just its own.

In past columns, I've taken Microsoft to task for leaving its non-XP users in the lurch, but I think I'm coming around to the point where I want to thank the folks in Redmond for this strategy. By driving down the market share of IE and making other Web browsers more widely used, Microsoft has done a great service to those of us who want to see Web sites and applications written to standards rather than to a single browser.

Thanks, Microsoft.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1658383,00.asp

It's official. Microsoft recently stated definitively—and contrary to rumors—that there will be no new versions of Internet Explorer for users of older versions of Windows.



MY ADVICE endeavors at keen.com. The number is 1-800-275-5336 (800-ask-keen) + ext. 0329063 for tech stuff, 0329117 for running a small business, and 0329144 on investing. Want to CHAT, I use Yahoo's IM as the_web_ster. View me in the Friends & Family part of webcamnow.com, just click on "view cams", then in the Java window click on WebcamNow Communities drop down arrow & select Friends & Family. Under the live webcams look for & click on me "the_webster".

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley

As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. Ago 79.

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Petrol cost up as oil prices bite

Press Association
Tuesday October 12, 2004 5:48 PM

Record oil prices of more than 54 US dollars (£30) a barrel have driven the cost of a litre of petrol up by more than a penny over the last week.

Motoring organisation the AA said the cost of a litre of unleaded petrol was now an average 83.46p after hovering around the 82p mark for more than a month.

It came as the cost of a barrel of crude oil broke through the 54 US dollars mark in New York for the first time ever today. Brent crude - found in the North Sea and traded in London - reached a new peak above 51 US dollars (£28).

Richard Freeman, of the AA, said: "Despite high oil prices we've not seen much movement in the price of petrol. Obviously it's finally coming through."

Although he did not speculate on where the petrol price would go next, Mr Freeman said he would be "very surprised" if it dipped below 80p a litre in the near future.

The latest increase has brought prices even closer to the 85p-a-litre levels seen at the time of the pump protests in 2000. The cost of unleaded petrol has risen by 5p since April, when it stood at an average of 78.6p.

Motorists have been feeling the heat of sky-high oil prices for some time now, as the cost of oil has consistently been setting new records over the summer.

Factors including continued unrest in Iraq and the impact of Hurricane Ivan on oil production have left the commodity in short supply. Fears are now growing that winter demand for heating oil will push prices even higher.

Record prices were blamed on Monday for the sharpest annual rise in the cost of goods leaving UK factories in more than eight years.

The increase weighed on the London stock market, with the FTSE 100 Index falling by more than 40 points.



MY ADVICE endeavors at keen.com. The number is 1-800-275-5336 (800-ask-keen) + ext. 0329063 for tech stuff, 0329117 for running a small business, and 0329144 on investing. Want to CHAT, I use Yahoo's IM as the_web_ster. View me in the Friends & Family part of webcamnow.com, just click on "view cams", then in the Java window click on WebcamNow Communities drop down arrow & select Friends & Family. Under the live webcams look for & click on me "the_webster".

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley

As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. At ago 79.

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If you live in CAlif. go to this link and find out if the state has money that is yours.

http://www.sco.ca.gov/col/ucp/index.shtml


Now, if you don't live in Calif. here's what you do. Type in your "Locater window" of your Internet browser your state's zipe code, IE CA=Calif., TX= Texas, etc. fellowed by ".gov". And of course state if off with "www." So, "www.tx.gov" is what you'd type if you live in TX.

That should get you to your state's web page and if you look around and don't find a way to look up unclaimed money email them and ask. The sco in the lick above stand for State Controller's office. That may help you. Look up a Phone # in your phone book and start things that way. Some state, small in population may not call the guy who handle the money for the state the "controler". Sometimes some states don't want to gave up these kinds of fund so be ready to work for it. And don't believe the first no they gave ya.
Good luck, and let me know if you find some Real money, won't ya... HA HA HA

MY ADVICE endeavors at keen.com. The number is 1-800-275-5336 (800-ask-keen) + ext. 0329063 for tech stuff, 0329117 for running a small business, and 0329144 on investing. Want to CHAT, I use Yahoo's IM as the_web_ster. View me in the Friends & Family part of webcamnow.com, just click on "view cams", then in the Java window click on WebcamNow Communities drop down arrow & select Friends & Family. Under the live webcams look for & click on me "the_webster".

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-- Aldous Huxley

As the prostitute said, "It's not the work, it's the stairs." As told to me by Elaine Stritch, star of stage, screen, & TV, right after she won her 1st Emmy. At ago 79.

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Robert Jacques 10/11/04
Industry giants AMD, Intel, Dell, Microsoft and Sun have thrown their weight behind a Web services specification that could provide a common way for systems to access and exchange management information. The publication of the Web Services Management (WS-Management) specification is designed to address the cost and complexity of IT management. By using Web services to manage IT systems, deployments that support WS-Management will enable IT managers to remotely access devices on their networks.



MY ADVICE endeavors at keen.com. The number is 1-800-275-5336 (800-ask-keen) + ext. 0329063 for tech stuff, 0329117 for running a small business, and 0329144 on investing. Want to CHAT, I use Yahoo's IM as the_web_ster. View me in the Friends & Family part of webcamnow.com, just click on "view cams", then in the Java window click on WebcamNow Communities drop down arrow & select Friends & Family. Under the live webcams look for & click on me "the_webster".