Inte enligt Ansemond:
"It runs as root, and does not respect your update statistics settings
Google Desktop installs itself as root: the index is at /Library/Google/Google Desktop/Index/(some directory which only root can access). This means it can access anything on your machine and do anything it likes. It doesn’t need to and on a first date, I don’t trust anything that much. Every user on the machine will have their content indexed, even if they don’t agree. You could say that Spotlight also runs as root, but people using an operating system written by Apple do have to trust Apple.
Even more bothersome: I told it not to upload statistics to Google. Their Privacy Policy says:
If you choose to enable Usage Statistics on Google Desktop, it allows Google Desktop to send crash reports and to collect a limited amount of non-personal information from your computer and send it to Google. This includes summary information, such as the number of searches you do and the time it takes for you to see your results, and application reports we’ll use to make the program better.
Well I didn’t, but Little Snitch tells me that a program called StatsUploader wants to talk to dc-in-f99.google.com every 30 odd minutes so. I happen to trust Little Snitch as I used it to help me make sure that Find It! Keep It! wasn’t loading anything from the Internet (unlike most other “internet page saving solutions”, such as those that use WebArchives)."