christopher_w - 5:15 pm on Oct 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

Does the Desktop Search App display ads when you're using it? If not, how are they going to make money by giving this thing away for free?

Whether they make money on this or not is not really the issue. They want to get people getting people used to using the G Desktop search and to get them to love it - so that Longhorn doesn't seem like such a big deal.

When you use it, does it communicate with Google in any way?

Only if you let it - you can uncheck that box after installing.