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Why Yahoo’s announcement today won’t get as much hype as Google’s
Scobleizer —
... 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, Vic Gundotra, who now is VP of Engineering at Google, solidly has hold of the top spot on Techmeme. Yahoo’s announcement shouldn’t threaten it. First, since you probably haven’t heard of Yahoo’s Search Pad, here’s what it does: ...
Yahoo launches Notebook-like Search Pad for search research
VentureBeat —
... So does Yahoo really need its own “me too” offering? I haven’t used Search Pad myself, but judging by this demo video, it offers a very different approach to the problem. Whereas Thumbtack and the various Notebooks function as more-or-less standalone products, Search Pad is closely integrated with Yahoo Search, and can be seen as more of an extension of the search tool. Basically, it tracks your Yahoo search activity to see if it looks like research, and automatically creates a document with all the pages you’ve visited, ...
Yahoo Debuts Search Pad, a Passive Bookmarking Tool for Web Searches
Wired: Epicenter —
... text clipped from web pages, reorder notes, delete them, add a free note that isn't attached to anything. There are also options to print the list or send it to a friend. It works for everyone, logged in or not, but logged in Yahoo users can save their notes for later.
For those who find the whole experience brings back nightmares of Clippy, Search Pad can be disabled. In fact, that's the only selectable item in the Search Pad preferences right now.
Yahoo has posted a demo video of Search Pad in action.
Yahoo senior director of product management Tom Chi ...
Take notes on your Search Pad
Yodel Anecdotal —
... 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 ...
Yahoo! Search Pad automatically takes notes on your internet research
Obsessable News Feed —
... that does some similar things, but it's not as deeply integrated into search. Yahoo! has a useful video that demonstrates how all this works, but in our experience it's not quite perfect. In our tests it often failed to recognize that we were doing research, so it wouldn't pop up and ask us if it should start taking notes. ...
Yahoo tests an online notepad for its search engine
Macworld —
... in Search Pad: one with information about an upcoming trip, another one with information about buying a car and a third one devoted to research about plans for a party. The links, content and notes in the items can be edited, deleted, re-arranged and shared with others via e-mail. Currently, Search Pad is designed to work only with Yahoo’s main Web search engine, not with the specialty engines for news, images and the like. Those interested in learning more about Search Pad can view this video Yahoo prepared. Yahoo said it wants feedback from people who try Search Pad, and ...
