YAHOO, New Research Assistant

Searches conducted from home require additional time," explained Susan Feldman, an analyst at IDC. We looked at how much time people spend looking for information and not being able to find it. These extra steps, in addition to being sometimes unwieldy, consume a good bit of time usage?

Currently in beta, Search Pad will allow students, information workers and Internet surfers on a mission to do away with cutting and pasting content to a word-processing document or email; bookmarking the search results or a bevy of sites; or simply writing pertinent results down on a mission to do away with cutting and pasting content to a word-processing document or email; bookmarking the search results or a bevy of sites; or simply writing pertinent results down on a sticky pad or notebook. Dubbed "Search Pad," the new companion search tool will enable users to keep track of Web sites and take notes when conducting online research. Yahoo introduced a new feature Wednesday designed to help make online research easier.
"The problem has been that you needed to have embedded search because information workers are always looking for stuff, and once they find it they want to use it, share it, move it around, and you also need access to good content," she noted. Although this is not the first time a company has attempted to create an application to make saving search projects easier, said Feldman, this is not the first time a company has attempted to create an application to make saving search projects easier, said Feldman, this is not the first time a company has attempted to create an application to make saving search projects easier, said Feldman, this is the first time that all the components have been tied together. Notes can also be saved and accessed at a later date via a user's Yahoo ID. That information can then be printed out or sent in an email to coworkers, friends and families.

Once triggered, users can edit, delete and re-order notes they have taken about a particular search topic. The feature automatically collects visited sites and provides users with simple tools to organize searches and take notes. Search Pad attempts to mitigate search time by "intelligently detecting users' research intent," according Yahoo.what is the right tool, cutting and pasting, and all that goes into research means we can do what humans do best and not being scattered and floundering during search projects," Feldman concluded. "Having a research tool that will allow me to go about my research and not have to worry about … The potential for tying it across their other services is huge," she pointed out.

A lot of people think of it as just a search engine provider, that's a mistake. The new feature should help attract new users to Yahoo's search engine, and also help differentiate that aspect of Yahoo's business from competitors including Google , Microsoft Live and Google, Yahoo is a much more diverse company.