feature of Google Desktop v. 3 on their computers should be seriously considered. The EFF advises against using this feature. Also, those who have confidential data on their work or home computers should not enable this feature. There are privacy laws and company policies that could be violated through the installation of this feature, specifically, SB 1386, HIPAA, FERPA, GLBA and Sarbanes-Oxley. Other more far reaching concerns arise around the packaging and end user license agreement – specifically the level of intrusion on the local machine and the disclaimers that users implicitly agree to future changes in the license agreement without actually being able to see them immediately. Outlook indexing There had been some issues with Microsoft Outlook indexing. Deleted email listings were not removed and required re-installing Google Desktop for any new archived mail to be listed. Several versions have been released to patch the Outlook indexing. During the first half of 2009, a large number of Google Desktop users reported that the product stopped indexing suddenly, when the index file reached approximately 4GB in size. A full uninstall (including manually deleting the indexes) and then reinstall would fix the problem temporarily, but the problem would recur when the index file reached 4GB again. The problem has been resolved as of Google Desktop Search version 5.9. Currently, Google Desktop does not index email or contacts in Outlook 2010. Thunderbird indexing By default, Google Desktop does not index email in Thunderbird 3. See also Alfred (Mac OS X) Desktop search DocFetcher (uses Java) Copernic Desktop Search Everything Google Drive Launchy List of desktop search engines List of Google services and tools Quicksilver (Mac OS X) Recoll Windows Search (component of Windows) AnyTXT Searcher References Desktop search engines Defunct internet search engines Desktop MacOS Internet software Windows Internet software Internet software for Linux Freeware 2004 software