Webmasters Say Yahoo's "Search Pad" is A Scrapper Tool!

February 6th, 2009 | RSS Feed

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Yesterday, Yahoo! came out with its new “Search Pad” feature that holds an astonishing similarity with Google's disposed Notepad tool! But it seems that the webmasters are dejected and crestfallen as most of them think that it is a complete scrapper tool that is used to capture their websites. Some of them are ready to block this tool completely and others think that it is not more than just a glorified scraping tool! The response is not positive at all.

Here is the video to help you know more about its working:

Yahoo! Search Pad Preview @ Yahoo! Video

Forum discussion is going at the Webmaster World

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