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If you use the Internet for any kind of online research, you’ve probably found yourself wishing there was a better way to catalog the information you come across.   If so, Yahoo might have a tool for you.  It’s called Search Pad.  From the Yahoo press release:

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.

I’ve tried a few other tools like this and for one reason or another and for whatever reason the work flow just didn’t click for me.  The user experience with Search Pad looks good, but the true test is actually using it.

Unfortunately I can’t try Search Pad now, it appears to be a close beta program.  It won’t be a long wait, however-Yahoo is quoting a “few months” until Search Pad is publicly available.

Read the full post on the Yahoo Search Blog.

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