The powerful tentacles of Google continue to extend deeper and deeper into your computer.
Google has unveiled a computer and search tool using “self-updating navigation” and “personal information software” that extends beyond pure search to access and manage your e-mail, instant messages, news, etc.
This new tool called the Google Sidebar is the company’s most direct challenge to Microsoft’s dominance of your desktop. The Sidebar encourages you to completely bypass your Windows desktop and that little green 
menu option in the bottom left hand corner of your screen.
The Sidebar Quickfind feature allows you to directly return to recently used applications or sites without extra clicks.
Google also plan to unveil this week a "communications tool" that is thought to be a new instant messaging service. Further demonstrating the company’s drive to break Microsoft’s dominance of the computer user’s desktop.
Of course, this long reach for you desktop also extends to the intranet. As I blogged last week, many organizations are starting to use the Google search engine on their own websites AND on their corporate intranets...