February 5, 2009
3:32 am
Yahoo! SearchPad for Online Research Notetaking
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.
Video demo:
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This is all well and good but what about allowing a little more attention to providing better search results? The addition of a sketch pad is great, though a little inferior to similar efforts from Diigo but right now, I am more concerned about the actual selection process and the amount of junk, ads and simply unreliable wiki pages yahoo and google keep turning up. For novelty sake, this seems to work, but I do a fair amount of research and i need a site that offers a guided hand approach to research, providing viable content, like sweetsearch.com.
A nice step further but deal with your content before adding any more bells and whistles- students and researchers will thank you.