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Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology
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Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology
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The White House Has a New Webmaster
The White House Has a New Webmaster
valleywag.gawker.com — At noon on the dot, WhiteHouse.gov cut over from George W. Bush's legacy site to Barack Obama... 's Change.gov. The first blog post of the Obama Administration promises "communication," "transparency," and "participation." It does not allow comments.  ... (more) The White House Has a New Webmaster
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Yahoo takes page from Google Notebook with Search Pad
Ars Technica — Google may have closed down its Google Notebook web clipping tool nearly three years after releasing it , but the apparent failure of that concept hasn't stopped Yahoo from announcing its own. Dubbed Search Pad, Yahoo's new tool acts like a smart research companion, offering one of the company's most integrated attempts at innovating the post-search process of using the Web. Announced on the Yahoo Search Blog Wednesday, Search Pad is "in testing and is not visible to all users," or what is otherwise known as "private beta." A demonstration video below reveals Search Pad to be a kind of intelligent notepad that watches your Yahoo ...

Yahoo Search Pad Uses Search To Help Your Brain Take Notes
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Yahoo Search Pad Looks Like an Online Researcher's Dream [Clips]
Lifehacker — Yahoo has announced a new feature in the works called Search Pad, a tool designed to organize online research like all that work you did researching a new HDTV through a smart and simple interface. The video walkthrough demonstrates how the service works, and since Search Pad is "currently only in testing and is not visible to all users," that may be all the closer you can look for now. Search Pad automatically detects when you start researching a topic and keeps track of the sites you've visited. You can add to and edit the items in your Search Pad within your Yahoo search results, and when you've finished your research, Search Pad can save ...

Yahoo to Start Keeping Tabs on Your Searches
WebProNews Feed — [image] New Search Pad Feature Helps Searchers Organize Their Info Yahoo has introduced a new feature called Search Pad for the Yahoo search engine. Essentially, it keeps track of your searches, figures out when you are researching things, and stores results of interest in a virtual notepad you can use for reference. The following video will give you a pretty good idea of what it does:"Let s say for example, you are doing research online to buy a new TV," a representative for Yahoo tells me. "Using Search Pad you no longer need to save the sites you are researching as a bunch of links in a document, or in bookmarks or even scribbled on a ...

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Yahoo trials Search Pad feature
Web User | News — Yahoo is running trials of a new tool that helps you take notes as you search the web. Search Pad is designed to understand when you are researching a topic on the web and offers to help you take notes. "It intelligently understands when you're in research mode and, if you choose, collects information about the sites you visit. You can create research documents with saved websites, edit and reorder your personal notes, and share them with friends," said Yahoo's Larry Cornett. "No more handwritten scrawls, Post-Its or scattered documents. And you can access them from wherever you are," Cornett continued. However, the feature won't be rolled out to all ...

Webmasters Call Yahoo's "Search Pad" A Big Scraper Tool
Search Engine Roundtable — Yesterday, Yahoo released a new tool to help you take notes while you conduct research with Yahoo Search. The tool is named Yahoo Search Pad and you can learn exactly how it works with this quick video: There is discussion around this tool at WebmasterWorld . The discussion is not all that positive. Most consider this tool to be an elegant scraping tool, stealing webmaster content, with ease. Some want to know how to block it from working. Awful news for webmasters who create original content. Any body found how to specifically block "Search Pad" yet. Let's see if this tool sticks or if Yahoo ditches it, like they have done to many of ...

Yahoo to Start Keeping Tabs on Your Searches
WebProNews Feed — [image] New Search Pad Feature Helps Searchers Organize Their Info I got in touch with a couple of people from Yahoo including Tom Chi, Senior Director of Product Management for Yahoo Search, about their new feature called Search Pad. Essentially, it keeps track of your searches, figures out when you are researching things, and stores results of interest in a virtual notepad you can use for reference. The following video will give you a pretty good idea of what it does:"Let s say for example, you are doing research online to buy a new TV," a representative for Yahoo tells me. "Using Search Pad you no longer need to save the sites you are researching ...

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