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Here’s a bit of sad news. Looks like the butler Jeeves, mascot of askjeeves.com, is packing his bags for good. Various blog reports pointed me to the well know butler’s retirement page, and it’s official—Jeeves is a goner. This coincides with ask.com dropping the jeeves portion off the end of its name. Farewell Jeeves, its been a slice.

Last week I blogged about a reported security risk with Google’s latest Desktop software. A watchdog group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation warned that Desktop 3 was dangerous to users, since it transports user information via the ‘Search Across Computers” feature and stores it on Google’s servers. The EEF stated that not only did Desktop 3 make personal information available to potential hackers, but also to government subpoenas. Cnet News reports that Google now recognizes there is in fact a security risk with the software, cautioning enterprise companies about the problem.

According to Cnet, Google says it is the responsibly of business owners to provide their own security resources, by disabling the Search Across Computers feature if worried about company data falling into the wrong hands. What does this mean for the personal user? The same thing I guess. Don’t use the Search Across Computers feature if you’re worried about security issues.