The big buzz this morning about Google Desktop. Perhaps Google is trying to steal Microsoft’s fire with searching desktop data? Some folks have speculated that this will be a major step towards a GoogleOS, in a way that is true. This will naturally bring up privacy and security issues. I expect there to be a lot more discussion about those two issues in the coming weeks as more people are able to try out Google Desktop and lean on it ways that Google hadn’t expected.
The next natural step is for Google to provide a file share (like iDisk) that people can use from any computer they go to. More than likely this would be webDAV, along with a web based file manager that could be accessed from any system with a web browser. Just like Google Desktop, this file share would be indexed and included in search results at Google.
There is lots of coverage of this: Slashdot, Kottke and O’Reilly Network.