Take notes on your Search Pad

Posted February 4th, 2009 at 9:18 am by Larry Cornett, Yahoo! Search

 12 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News

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 Search Pad, a new feature 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.

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.

We’re excited to bring you search innovations like these, designed to help you get stuff done – faster and easier.

Larry Cornett
Vice President, Yahoo! Search

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gag | February 4th, 2009 at 9:34 am

i read Microsoft wants yahoo!’s search
Microsoft portal and search is sad, its a waste of money and resources
if Microsoft and yahoo! where to come together for search i would be excited about microsoft providing the gps/geo n cloud computing data they have and yahoo the search data they have
still if its gonna be keywords or QnA they are gonna play around with then its a waste exercise

we have to think of out of the box solutions, hire me

gag | February 4th, 2009 at 10:54 am

once a user enters his location and time and then enters keyword then the results are given in images with add on relevant websites

further some images can be given as pay per click through for sites

RS | February 4th, 2009 at 11:25 am

FINALLY!

Something comes out of Yahoo that I actually would want to use. Cool stuff folks. Look forward to giving it a whirl.

MJ | February 4th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

Well, here is another new product announcement from yahoo! that peaked my interest. But, as with almost every new product and project that Yahoo! is working on, it is “a few months before we officially launch”. In the meantime this will be available to “a few select users”. Take a page out your rivals book, and release new products and features into the wild so that “real” people can test drive the features. In a “few months” the competition will likely have released dozens of other exciting features that are released for mass use.

Google has destroyed Yahoo! (and everyone else) in search, now they’re eating your lunch from right under your noses in all the areas Yahoo! used to be strong in.

AnyBrower | February 9th, 2009 at 11:27 am

i think.. it’s great!

Money Ideas | July 8th, 2009 at 7:06 am

Wow, very interesting!

Crank Monde | July 21st, 2009 at 5:00 am

As far as my memory can reach this is one of the great things yahoo had done something and make their product more interesting.

Volunteer India | July 21st, 2009 at 5:07 am

Interesting huh!…It makes my work more easier. It was an answer to everyones problem.

1-800-seo-tools | August 4th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

it’s great idea. and very useful for every one. If you had the chance to experience with WordTracker keywords solution then you probably aware to the fact that at the end of the process you have a lot of keywords that you need to deal with. Suppose you have 3,000 keywords that you need to analyze. More likely that it be difficult for you to do keywords research with this huge amount of keywords. T

Gold Ankauf | October 11th, 2009 at 8:57 am

Great tool to analyse your Keywords. Forsa Yahoo!

Gold Ankauf | October 11th, 2009 at 8:58 am

Forsa Yahoo!

Celeblog | October 21st, 2009 at 8:40 am

This is just great!