Comments on: Yahoo Search Pad: An online notebook that watches you

Yahoo to launch new tool to help people organize research conducted on Yahoo's Internet search engine.

[hsolano]

Yahoo Search Pad is trying to address one important problem with search today - repeat queries. More than 40% of searches are repeat queries (people looking for the same information that they have found before) and almost all searches are duplicate queries (people looking for something that someone else has already found). As a result, we waste a lot of time searching.

Linklex.com (http://linklex.com) a search engine that allows users to save, reuse and share their search results will be launching in private beta tomorrow. The ability to save search results is important to help searchers overcome two of the main problems with today?s search engines, repeat queries and duplicate queries.

Disclaimer: I worked for Linklex Inc.

[Orion Blastar]

Uh what about privacy? Can other people see what I am searching, can I set an option so that my notepad is private and only for my use?

If I am researching material for writing a book, I don't want to clue in other people so they can steal my ideas and write a book on the same thing and then publish it before I can.

I want to keep research on my book separate from research on programming languages and health issues. I don't want to lump them all together in one notebook and get them confused. Can I use more than one notebook and switch notebooks during search, or am I forced to create another Yahoo account and keep my research separated via different Yahoo accounts?

[monkeyfun14]

If someone in your household would steal your ideas for a book you have more to worry about then privacy.

[flickrz]

So, it won't come up if you want to take notes unless yahoo's stupid algo thinks you are doing research. How ridiculous.

[crisfrankel]

Isn't this the same type of thing that the Google toolbar does with visited pages?
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