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February 4, 2009
Yahoo is Testing SearchPad for Online Research Notetaking
Yahoo is testing a new research aid called SearchPad. It allows users to take and save notes on various areas of research, from trips to product research to pretty much anything you want!
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.
Here's a video demonstrating SearchPad:
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Posted by Nathania Johnson on February 4, 2009 12:25 PM
Comments
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.
Chris February 5, 2009 2:59 PM
