"I tested this by creating a text file with a unique string in it. I then threw the file in the Windows trash can, which I emptied afterwards. And guess what, the file can now still be found, and Google Desktop offers me its full-text cache of the file even though it had been removed."This is something I think all people should be aware of. It could be a good thing, then again, it could be a bad thing.
You can instruct Google Desktop to exclude the Recycle Bin from being indexed of course, but I think this is a bass-ackwards approach myself. I think it would be more convenient to actually be able to select what you want to include in the first place. I am hoping that Google will take this approach in the future. It will be far more simpler, and then they do not have to worry about people wondering why their private documents are showing up in searches. They would only have themselves to blame.
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