I installed Google Desktop Search at the weekend despite my pledge not to install any new software this year. In reading [The Google Story by David Vise](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ 055380457X/quantumgarden-20? creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1) I became aware of just how reliant upon Google I am. If the desktop version works as well it will be very useful indeed.
Google Desktop exceeds my expectations. It is fast and returns more accurate results than MSN Desktop Search does. But there are some caveats to be aware of. They probably applied to MSN Desktop Search as well yet I’m not sure that it stored cached results of deleted items.
If you receive a password confirmation via email and Google gets to it before you do, it will create a copy of the email in your cache (assuming you index your emails). Delete the email and the cached version remains. That’s a bit dangerous. I just searched for “password” on my machine and turned up 103 hits amongst 10 emails and 93 files. I have some culling from the cache to do. I’m sure it’s worth you doing the same.
Update: Click “Remove From Index” on the search page to be able to check items to remove from the cache.