Yahoo! Hacks

Personalize, Track, and Share the Web

A free Yahoo! service called My Web remembers your searches, saves copies of web pages, and shares your saved pages with others.

The Yahoo! My Web beta gives you a powerful set of tools to collect web pages, annotate them, and share them with others. In My Web, you can save links to your favorite web sites (much like bookmarks) and organize them in custom folders. But there are several features available at My Web beyond collecting links:

Site Notes

You can add notes to any saved web site in My Web. You can use these notes to provide a site description, personal comments about the site, or any other bits of text.

Copies of Web Pages

Instead of saving just a link to a web site, My Web saves a copy of a page as it looked when you added it My Web. So even if a web page changes between when you added the site to My Web and when you want to reference it later, you can be sure you’ll see the original information.

Search History

If you enable Search History, Yahoo! will remember which sites you click on in any Yahoo! search results and save them to your My Web History folder. If you have trouble remembering what search term you used to find a particular site, this might be a useful feature for you.

Blocked Sites

Some sites that show up in search results simply aren’t relevant and won’t be relevant to any search you make. Clicking Block tells Yahoo! not to show that particular site in your future search results. Blocked sites show up in your My Web Blocked ...