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Google Exec: Search Across Computers Concern For IT: Page 2 of 2

He said corporate management must build security walls and set policies to guard internal data, and that requirement is growing as the line between personal and corporate search blurs.

"The line between personal and work is going away," said the Google executive. " It's consumerization of enterprise IT. More and more consumers are driving what user expectations are in the enterprise."

The feature has raised eyebrows at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Gartner Group which called the feature an unacceptable security risk. and advised coprorate administrators to turn it off.

Google, for its part, notes that Google Desktop 3 for Enterprises allows administrator to disable the feature and is disabled by default.