General
Problem
Security and Privacy
How much diskspace is it going to consume?
This depends on the volume of your web activities. In the case of one heavy web surfer it is estimated to build a repository of 1GB in 4 years. Finally the repository is bounded by the volume of material one can read in the life time.
How is this different from the Google Desktop Search?
MindRetrieve's focus is on the World Wide Web with a twist that it considers the web pages your have seen is most special. It is a desktop search engine in the sense that it runs locally and serves only you. However it does not index your files or email.
The MindRetrieve service does not start in Windows
We have observed that on some system MindRetrieve service on Windows does not start after rebooting sometimes. To manually start it from command line, simply run:
net start MindRetrieve
Proxy error when access the web
If you see error messages like this when accessing the web:
"Could not connect to proxy server"
"The connection was refused when attempting to contact the proxy server"
or "The page cannot be displayed" for IE
The MindRetrieve engine is probably not running. You may manually start the engine. Another possibility is you have uninstalled MindRetrieve engine. In this case please complete the uninstallation procedure by resetting your browsers proxy setting.
Would any of my private data being sent to remote website?
Current all operation are performed locally. No data is sent to any remote web site at all. In the future if there is any feature that requires contact of a remote server, let's say remote bookmarking, the user would be fully aware of it.
What happens for a computer shared by multiple users?
All users on the same computer would share the same repository.
The upcoming exclude and purge feature will address this.
Last updated: 2004-12-28