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Sidebar - gateway for online information
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Sidebar - a ubiquitous gateway for online information
Idea behind: "Let the users sit back and let the Web come to them"
Now read on ..
Sidebar is a new application, highlights Google s efforts to become a ubiquitous gateway for online information. Reinforcing its intent to expand beyond the Internet searching that made it a household name, Google Inc. today plans to launch software that pulls news stories, photographs, weather updates, stock quotes and other features onto a user s computer without opening a Web browser. It also puts Google more squarely into competition with Microsoft Corp., which is trying to integrate similar features into the next version of its Windows operating system, and with Yahoo Inc., the Internet s most popular portal.
How exactly its useful to User
Sidebar is neither an Operating System or a web browser. Sidebar comes bundled with an updated version of Google Desktop, a search tool that finds information on PC hard drives. It sits on the side of the computer screen and frequently queries the Web to update folders displaying news stories and other information. A search box also lets users find files stored on their computers, e-mail they ve received and Web pages they ve visited.
Google is the latest Internet company trying to shorten the connection between consumers and the content that interests them. OS X, the latest version of Apple Computer Inc. s operating system, includes a program called Dashboard composed of little files, known as "widgets," that automatically update with information. Yahoo recently acquired Pixoria, a start-up whose Konfabulator platform allows developers to create similar widgets. Infact Yahoo, Apple and Google each encourage developers to create new widgets for consumers to install.
Sidebar has the ability to learn from a user s Web surfing habits. The program will add visited sites to its toolbar and receive automatic updates of postings or photos, so the user doesn t have to visit the site for fresh content. In displaying news stories, the program over time will favor categories that the user reads most often.
Sidebar does not include advertisements, but analysts said they could imagine modules that cycle through display ads based on the pages a user has visited.
Source: LA Times, Google
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