<story><title>Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/greplin-ycombinator-personal-search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danicgross</author><text>If you get uncomfortable, you can delete your account at any time. We&apos;ll delete your data. Not in 14 days, a week or tomorrow. That moment. 
We&apos;re convinced that you&apos;ll find enough value with Greplin to overcome that issue - the same way many did with mint.com.&lt;p&gt;We&apos;re also working with a) encrypted indexes b) only writing the index to disk rather then any content. this shuts down a lot of neat features (generating snippets etc.) - but users that are willing to forgo features for added security might find it useful.</text></item><item><author>Sukotto</author><text>Why should I trust these guys with my data?  It&apos;s bad enough that Google knows so much about me... but at least they have some checks and balances built in.  What sort of safety does &quot;greplin&quot; have to offer adopters?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sweis</author><text>Can you share any details of how your encrypted indices work? Searching over encrypted data is an active research area. I&apos;m curious to learn what you are doing in practice.</text></comment>
<story><title>Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/31/greplin-ycombinator-personal-search/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danicgross</author><text>If you get uncomfortable, you can delete your account at any time. We&apos;ll delete your data. Not in 14 days, a week or tomorrow. That moment. 
We&apos;re convinced that you&apos;ll find enough value with Greplin to overcome that issue - the same way many did with mint.com.&lt;p&gt;We&apos;re also working with a) encrypted indexes b) only writing the index to disk rather then any content. this shuts down a lot of neat features (generating snippets etc.) - but users that are willing to forgo features for added security might find it useful.</text></item><item><author>Sukotto</author><text>Why should I trust these guys with my data?  It&apos;s bad enough that Google knows so much about me... but at least they have some checks and balances built in.  What sort of safety does &quot;greplin&quot; have to offer adopters?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whatusername</author><text>So you don&apos;t have any backups then?  (And I mean actual backups - replication is not a backup)</text></comment>