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Google Debuts Sidebar to Challenge Microsoft, Yahoo

Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, introduced a tool that automatically displays Web content such as news and weather on users' computer screens, posing a threat to products from Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc.

The Google product, a vertical sidebar that pops up without first launching a Web browser such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, also can search for files and launch programs, Nikhil Bhatla, a Google product manager, said in an interview.

Google's tool, contained in an update of the Mountain View, California-based company's software that searches computer files, resembles features offered by Apple Computer Inc. and Yahoo. The tool poses a challenge to Microsoft, which plans to build new search features into the next version of the Windows operating system.(continue at source)

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