Google Desktop Part 2
The AIM logs problem

I was wandering around Google Desktop for another day. I was questioning myself of pros and cons of the usage of this product. The fan of my laptop is crying to death. Indexing finish after 3000 hits. If I reinstall the thing it stops after 10000 hits. It seems to have a problem of indexing; normal it’s a beta version.

I came along a new thing that I didn’t saw before. It’s in relation with the AIM. I’m not normally using it, I prefer MSN Messenger. Everybody knows that Google Desktop index all messages from AIM. It’s not really news in itself. The thing that most people don’t know is that if you turn off the logging property of your AIM it seems that Google Desktop index your messages anyway. Is anyone can confirm me this? It seems that there is no solution to the problem and that the only way to get rid of this bug is to uninstall Google Desktop.

There are some excerpts that I took on the webpage of the Google Desktop that seems to confirm this observation:

“…An AIM chat window for that person opens. If you’re not signed on to AIM, Google Desktop Search will try to sign you on…”

“…When you look at a web page, read an email, open or edit a file, or have an AIM chat, Google Desktop Search does two things. It indexes that item’s content so it can find the item later. It also copies the item’s content into its cache, so that you’ll be able to find and see long-finished chats and older versions of files and web pages…”

This is a problem because you don’t have any power on this. If you use Google Desktop you bypass the ability of AIM to don’t log conversations.

So, if they are doing this for AIM, they’ll probably also does it for MSN Messenger and further products that they will support.

There is a last question pending in my mind: Why are they doing this? Is this for future plans or only because they didn’t see this like this?