Yahoo! launches the new online pad. The principle is simple; if you are doing some research on a specific topic on Yahoo! (for example: vacation in Hawaii, new mobile phone…) after a few searches on the same subject, Yahoo! will suggest that you open its pad.

The Yahoo pad is organised by websites visited and you can add comments about each of these websites, you can also make general comments not relevant to any of the websites.

It is a nice idea to take notes when you research online, but to be honest it is pretty useless. Primarily, to use it you need to have a Yahoo account and activate it. After few searches on Yahoo about mobile phones and Rio de Janeiro, Yahoo didn’t give me the option of opening the pad! .. Really annoying, you cannot open this pad whenever you want or need to…

Also this pad doesn’t offer a lot more than a simple Notepad (from Windows) just a better presentation. I do not see the big advantage or value of this tool.

Yahoo should focus more time on its search engine algorithm or useful functions than little gadgets that nobody is going to use.