Hi smart people and lawyers,
Beagle contains 3 web history backends who index all the web-pages that
has
been visited while beagled was running. Since it is supposed to index the
visited web pages, there is no concept of "deleted/erased history" and so
indexed items are never deleted. Even though history cant be deleted in real
life, they can be in computers - browsers allow users to delete history. Add
to this the fact that sometimes browsers cleans up history to save space.
So the question is: what should beagle do to the indexed web pages ?
Should they expire after some number of days ?
Should there be any correspondence between the actual history stored by the
browser and the webpages stored in beagle index ?
(There are technical limitations in figuring out if a history deletion is due
to periodic history cleanup or explicit user request).
I myself found that clearing IE cache didnt remove the browsed pages from
GDS's index in an old version (2 years ago) but it could have changed now.
If some of you know how web history is handled is other desktop search apps
please let me know. Any other comments, suggestions are welcome too. Till
then, if you are afraid someone might try to find visited webpages even
though you explicitly removed them from the browser's history, disable the
web history backends. But again, you have nothing to hide - do you ;-) ?
- dBera
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Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com
beagle / KDE fan
Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user
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