Yahoo Search Pad to compete against Google, MS

BANGALORE, INDIA: To keep updated and intensify its search engine with Google and Microsoft, Yahoo! has begun testing a new project called Search Pad.

The new feature, Search Pad, will help users effortlessly capture websites that they find on Yahoo! Search and organize that information to complete important tasks.

According to the available reports, Yahoo! Search Pad enable users to organise, capture, manage and share information they collect in the course of their online research.

Tom Chi, senior director of Product Management, Yahoo! Search said in a blog post, "Our user studies show that people often use word-processing documents, sticky notes, emails, bookmarks (or a combination of the above) to record what they find on the Web. These methods can be quite cumbersome and require extra steps which are time-consuming and distracting. Search Pad tackles this problem by intelligently detecting users’ research intent, automatically collecting visited sites, and providing simple tools for users to organize and add notes, all in one place."

"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. This helps to make online research much more productive and convenient." added Chi.

The technology is currently in testing phase and is not visible to all users, the company said, and the service should be enabled for all the users in coming months.