What spyware have you found?
I use GE a lot
The desktop Google client/app you install updates everything you do to Google. It is literally a spy you installed into your box. Even when you are not using GE go watch your processes in your system monitor. You can watch it send stuff to Google as fast as it can as you use it. There should be absolutely nothing going to Google if you are not using the GE app and hooking to their GE server. So they are sending everything you do in real time to a second server.
I found this years ago with GE. And it was rough on me, I am addicted to it... lol