Googling

Have you heard of, seen, or used the new Google Desktop 2 search engine? This one is supposed to beat back Microsoft's latest attempt to take over the search engine lead from Google (Doesn't Microsoft try to put everyone in the computer industry out of business?) and Yahoo. The latest in search engine plus desktop systems from Google includes some new attributes besides the typical search engines we all love to use. It also monitors the user's behavior on line to track him and presents relevant information in a resizable and moveable windows (Sidebars).
One thing I am not sure is good for is the aspect of Desktop 2 that collects E mail messages from a variety of the person's accounts, including Google's own E mail service and the user's service provider E mail. Hmmmm This seems covert to me, and it would keep me from installing Desktop 2. I do not like being tracked and think that slows down the computer as well.
Some other components of Google Desktop 2 display stock prices, personalized news headlines, weather reports and a "what's popular on the web" section. There is also a photo module that displays pictures from the local PC and can pull pictures from sites that the user has visited on line. Doesn't this seem to be a bit too much?
In this system it would seem that personal information is displayed far too easily. What, for instance, if a person used a shared computer (as in an internet cafe)? His or her personal information might be accessed and used by another user. I think it best to have as little tracking as possible and will not use Google 2.
All the new fluff in Desktop 2 and Yahoo and Microsoft search engines are way more than I want. When I want to find information I will stick with basic searches that I have more control over, even if it is more time consuming.
Speaking of too much tracking....Researchers at the University of Alberta, Canada are going one better than Google! They are DNA testing to determine if Bigfoot exists. That's right, the debate over the existence of Bigfoot (the ape-like creature said to roam in some mountain areas of the U.S. and other areas of the world) may be settled in some minds. A laboratory there will test hair samples that several residents of the Yukon say were left when Bigfoot made a late-night appearance in July. University of Alberta geneticist David Coleman is skeptical of Bigfoot but says he will do the test because all other large animals in Canada have also been DNA tested. "
So we will compare it to all of that, and if it doesn't match anything, then it's potentially interesting, said Coleman. But this Dr. Coleman is no mad scientist who is madly in love with Bigfoot theories. he believes the hair was likely left by an ordinary Yukon bison and says that if the hair is from Bigfoot it would have to be a closer match to the DNA of apes or human DNA. The latest sighting that brought forth the hair is one in which the residents who spotted the animal swear is not a normal creature. But then, given the likelihood that the DNA test proves that Bigfoot is an imagination rather than reality.....some one might have to DNA test those who claim Bigfoot exists to see what level on which their brains are functioning..