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Yahoo takes page from Google Notebook with Search Pad
Ars Technica —
... , 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 searches and can sniff out when you're doing ...
Take notes on your Search Pad
Yodel Anecdotal —
... 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. No more handwritten scrawls, Post-Its or scattered documents. And you can access them from wherever you are.
It’ll be a few months before we officially launch Search Pad. In the meantime, have a look at this screencast to get a sense of how it works. And head over to Yahoo! Search Blog for more details. ...
Yahoo Search Pad Uses Search To Help Your Brain Take Notes
TechCrunch —
... 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 tools, such as ...
Yahoo to Start Keeping Tabs on Your Searches
WebProNews Feed —
... 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 ...
Yahoo unwraps a Search Pad
Betanews —
... February 4, 2009, 2:46 PM 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. The search engine's testing a Search Pad , an online app that the company envisions as your virtual scratch pad, or maybe your virtual monitor bezel -- if you're the sort that sticks notes and printouts all around your monitor in hopes of not losing track of sites in your delicious list, bookmarks, or tab forest. (Apparently keeping 75 tabs open at ...
Yahoo! Search Pad lets users store research, history, notes online
Download Squad —
... 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 ...
Yahoo! SearchPad for Online Research Notetaking
D' Technology Weblog —
... 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 such behavior to see if they want to take notes. Users can easily edit, delete, and re-order notes they’ve taken on a topic, and then print them out or email them to friends and family. They can also save the notes to access later by logging ...
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 ...
Yahoo Search Pad
John Battelle's Searchblog —
... we’re testing on Yahoo! Search that helps you keep track of websites and take notes whenever you do research online. 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. No more handwritten scrawls, Post-Its or scattered documents. And you can access them from wherever you are.
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Google Challengers Hone In On Niche Users To Gain Market Share
paidContent —
... —Yahoo: Yahoo rolled out Search Pad, a tool that lets users keep track of the sites they visit during an ongoing search; the idea is to eliminate the need to track their research with another program like Microsoft Word, or even jotting down notes on a sheet of paper. Currently in beta, Search Pad picks up where the ...
