Yahoo Inc. is panning for gold in waters that Google Inc. abandoned.

Yahoo said in a blog post on Wednesday that it was examining a new tool to help citizens better organize the bounty of info that crops up while doing research on the Web.

Search Pad is similar in concept to Google Notebook — a product the Web-search leader opted to halt development on last month.

But the fact that Google threw in the towel on a product

does not mean Yahoo is wasting its duration, say some analysts. The companies’ differing financial and competitive positions mean what is right for one might not compose sense for the other.

Google, which controls roughly 63 percent of the U.S. search market, is taking a hard look at its operating expenses to preserve its operating margin in a slowing economy, including the slew of non-essential projects it traditionally supported.

Yahoo, whose 2008 revenue rose […]

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