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 ...

While I was out, much news has broken in our world. Yahoo, for example, launched an experiment called "Search Pad." From their corporate post: (Search Pad is) a new feature we’re testing on Yahoo! Search that helps you keep track of websites and take notes whenever you do research online. ...

Section: Web , Web Browsers Since most people now conduct their research on the Internet, they will benefit from tools that help them organize their searches.  Yahoo hopes that users will turn to their new Search Pad application, a feature currently in beta testing. With the Search ...

Google Notebook might be languishing, but Yahoo is betting its new search engine organizer will win fans.

Google Notebook might be languishing, but Yahoo is betting its new search engine organizer will win fans.

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: @ Yahoo! Video...

Yahoo is running trials of a tool that intelligently understands when you are researching topics online and will help you take notes.

Yahoo! is testing  a new feature called Search Pad to help users effortlessly capture websites that they find on Yahoo! Search and organize that information to complete important tasks. SearchPad can detect when your searches on Yahoo look like research. It will prompt users conduct ...

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New tool attempts to determine real intent behind queries to yield better results.

Yahoo! is rolling out a new tool that will make internet research using the company's search engine much easier. It's called Search Pad , and it allows you to copy search results to a sort of online scratch pad associated with your account. You can add text from web pages, organize your ...

Despite the real possibility that your desk actually is composed of nothing but sticky notes and scraps of random paper, Yahoo's testing a new tool that could help you dismiss some of the daily data debris.

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 ...

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...

Yahoo is testing a new note-taking application integrated into search called Yahoo Search Pad . This isn’t publicly available yet, but look for it to become a feature of Yahoo’s search engine in the future. I’ve played around with a beta version. Unlike other note-taking ...

Seeking a way to stand out in a search-engine competition that includes Microsoft and Google, Yahoo began bucket-testing a new search feature, Search Pad, that allows users to manage the information they gather while researching online. Yahoo hopes that the feature, which allows URLs and text to ...

You’re doing research online – writing a paper on global warming, buying a new washing machine, planning a trip to Thailand, or trying to understand a health condition. You visit a few related websites when suddenly your search engine asks you if you’d like to start taking notes. Introducing ...

Yahoo is launching an enhancement to its web search engine called Search Pad on Wednesday. It's is a simple research tool that helps you organize web bookmarks and notes around a specific topic. If you're searching for information about a topic -- repeating particular phrases and ...

Google shipped a new thing last night, called Latitude . I already put it on my cell phone. It lets me tell my friends where I am. Pretty cool, right. But today’s Yahoo announcement of Search Pad should have gotten more hype, but it won’t. As I type this at 7:35 a.m. my old boss, ...

Yahoo Search Pad lets you keep track of pages uncovered dearing what Yahoo technology determines is a research session. (Click to enlarge.) (Credit: Yahoo) As part of its effort to invigorate its search engine, Yahoo has begun testing a new project called Search Pad designed to detect when ...