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webmasterworld.com - 2/5/2009
Yahoo Search Pad Being Tested
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"we are 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."
ysearchblog.com - 2/4/2009
Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Search Pad: Making Online Research Easier
— ysearchblog.com — If you’ve ever used a search engine as a tool to help plan a vacation, research a... purchase, or find health information on an illness, you know how difficult it is to keep track of the relevant websites and notes you find. Today, we are testing a new ... (more) Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » ...

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Yahoo! Search Pad Preview on Yahoo! Video
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Yahoo! Search Pad Sneak Peek
— tools.search.yahoo.com — The Camtasia Studio video content presented here requires JavaScript to be enabled and the latest version of... the Macromedia Flash Player. If you are you using a browser with JavaScript disabled please enable it now. Otherwise, please update your ... (more) Yahoo! Search Pad Sneak Peek

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Search Engine Roundtable:  Webmasters Call Yahoo's "Search Pad" A Big Scraper Tool

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Webmasters Call Yahoo's "Search Pad" A Big Scraper Tool
Search Engine Roundtable — ... 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 ...

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