Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:41:19 +0300 From: Jayadev P Hiremath <jayadevph@gmail.com> San Francisco, reuters: Google Inc, on Monday, unveiled a new computer and Web search tool using self-updating navigation and personal information software that puts it in more direct competition with Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL. The creator of the world's most popular Web search system said it was branching out beyond pure search to help users manage e-mail, instant messages, news headlines and music. Google Desktop 2, as the new search software is known, helps users locate information stored on their own hard disk, on office network drives they may use and on the Web.