Unveiling Yahoo! Search Pad
People have been clamoring to get their hands on Search Pad since we showed a demo video earlier this year. Today we are rolling out Search Pad to the public so you can see for yourself how it can help you organize research on the Web.
Search Pad helps you track sites and make notes by intelligently detecting user research intent and automatically collecting sites the user visits. Search Pad turns on automatically when you’re doing research, tracking sites to make document authoring a snap. You can then quickly edit and organize your notes with the Search Pad interface, which includes drag-and-drop functionality and auto-attributed pasting.
For example, if you are planning a trip to Durango, Colo., Search Pad detects your research intent and asks if you’d like to take notes. Search Pad then saves the sites you’ve visited, like the tourism office or a day spa you’re headed to, and lets you take more notes on the information you’ve found.
You can save your documents using your Yahoo! ID so you can access your documents from anywhere on the Web. This helps you save any research you’ve done so you needn’t do the same searches over and over again.
After you’ve done your research, you can publish your document to a permanent URL to share with friends and family so they can check out your trip itinerary and chime in with tips. Using Search Pad, you can share research on that new digital camera that you are checking out, things to do this weekend, or any other research you might do on the Web. You can even share Search Pad documents on Facebook, Twitter, or Delicious.
Search Pad can help you save your work across an entire session or even multiple sessions. Our intent detection allows us to offer Search Pad during sessions where it is most needed, and stay out of the way when it’s not. Of course, you can also opt to use Search Pad directly at any point during your research.
At Yahoo!, we’re always looking for ways to innovate in search by challenging the model that search is just about a keyword and 10 blue links. We are constantly improving our technology and experience in ways that people need most — Search Pad is just the latest result of those efforts.
Search Pad goes live today in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. See for yourself how Search Pad can help you save time, share information easily, and make the hardest search research tasks more manageable. Give it a try. We look forward to hearing your feedback.
Tom Chi
Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Search
Congratulations Yahoo! team for this development. But was wondering why India is not on the list of launch?
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@Sampad
Hope the SearchPad function will go live in Chinese, too.
…and Norway? :-)
Congrats on the Yahoo! search pad launch
Very excited about the launch. I just read a review by Danny Sullivan and learned about more of the features. It’s helpful you all should check it out!
http://www.expertsem.com/2009/07/07/new-yahoo-feature-search-pad/
Isn’t this the same type of thing that the Google toolbar does with visited pages?
Congrats on the Yahoo! search pad launch. I have tested for a while, and it’s awesome!
Hugo
Kudos to the team that launched SearchPad!
Great new feature!
A couple of questions:
1. only text is supported in the notes section? is there an option to paste in HTML-formatted text and images?
2. Is there a way to access the notes directly without going through Yahoo search?
This is a great start! Looking forward to further upgrades and improvements!
Seems to be very useful. It´s easy to share the notes via Delicious and Facebook. Great!
Doesn’t seem to be working here in Australia…
It is great !! But doesn’t work in Google Chrome browser.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16171
Wow, looks like a cool tool. Can’t wait to explore all it can do.
In researching cached webpages, will Searchpad actually save the page or just the link. I would hate ot go back to my work 2-3 months later and find just a set of inactive links.
WOW! This looks very cool. Will begin playing with this tool immediately!
This does look like a very useful tool. The smarter that search gets, the more people will want to use it.
Congrats, Tom and team! Search Pad looks great!!!
This is awesome. love the tool :)
Thanks for this great and useful new feature. I definately looking forward to use it.
Nice ! Search , Save and share !
Really cool :)
Cool tool. It will help me plan my trip to San Antonio, :)1
this is awesome, i can share it on Facebook, Twitter, or Delicious. When they launched this?
Its great and its better than Google.
I hope yahoo soon Indexes my blog.:)
Doesn’t work in Google Chrome browser.
and Norway? :-)
good job yahoo…i hope its become better and better
Congrats on the Yahoo! search pad launch. I have tested for a while, and it’s awesome! Pete
Hi .. Doesn’t work in Google Chrome browser… :S
Congrats on the Yahoo! search pad launch. I have tested for a while, and it’s awesome!
congratulations to yahoo. GREAT!
Tom and team Works is Great . Thanks for this nice work , and i hope the problem of Chrome to be fixed soon .
yahoo is very good , i like it ,thank you .
good luck to yahoo!
Congrats on the Yahoo! search pad launch. I have tested for a while, and it’s awesome!
Thanks for this great and useful new feature.