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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 searches and can sniff out when you're doing ...
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 Google Notebook, Search Pad doesn’t force you to go somewhere else to take notes. It also tries to figure out when you might be in research mode, and records and groups all of your searches for you.
As you do searches on Yahoo, it recognizes when you are searching or clicking on links related to the same topic. If it thinks you are in research mode, as ...
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 the results to your Yahoo account, email ...
Yahoo Debuts Search Pad
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
Yahoo has posted a sneak video preview of its new Search Pad feature. Yahoo Search Pad helps users by attempting to determine the purpose of their search. Indicators such as time spent on a site and other search patterns help show whether a user is attempting to navigate a site, find specific information, or collect volumes of information on a single topic. The note-taking application, built into Yahoo Search, automatically collects and saves information and links to sites as a user visits them. It appears on the upper-right hand corner of search results. The video touts the application as a useful tool for planning vacations and shopping, as well ...
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 in with their Yahoo! ID.
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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 surfers for "a ...
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 their products. ...
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 as a bunch of ...
Write That Down: Yahoo Search Pad Is About To Launch To The Public
TechCrunch —
Yahoo Search Pad takes on Google
Techradar - All the latest technology news —
Yahoo aims to make searching for information and researching topics online even less of a chore with its latest 'Search Pad' interactive note-taking software. If you are planning on buying a car or going on holiday then Yahoo claims that Search Pad will assist you, by automatically tracking and organising sites you find on Yahoo! Search. Yahoo's latest app will allow users to "capture, organise, save and share information they find while researching online" with the company pegging it as ideal for "extensive research in categories such as academic, health, jobs, travel, or shopping". Intelligent detection Search Pad ...
