The trend of the moment seems to be saving stuff; web pages, pictures, videos, search results, etc. Last week it was Google that started remembering what we searched (for those logged in, anyway) via My Search History. Today, the Yahoo! Search blog reports that they’ve launched My Web.

My Web is based on a very simple principle - a search engine should enable you to define and use the information that’s important to you. Specifically, My Web enables you to find the information relevant to you, save it, share it, add your own notes to it, and easily find it again, whether it’s three days or three months later. The idea is a simple one – we provide a “Save” button on our search results, on the Yahoo! Toolbar (for both IE and Firefox), and, in the future, anywhere you might find useful info on the Web.

This is a smart way to get people like me to reinstall the Yahoo toolbar (pictured above) which had previously been dismissed as mostly a “me-too” type offering. Once reinstalled, I added the Search blog announcement. It easy and intuitive creating new folders.

After clicking the green + on the folder to “Save to My Web” you can then “Go to My Web” and organize into custom folders. Just check the box(es) and then choose the folder from the dropdown menu. It’s very similar to organizing web mail.

Oh, and yes, fellow developers, MyWeb API is available. Nice.

Other talking about MyWeb:
Husky Guggerbun: “This one is so close to being a good alternative to del.icio.us for private bookmarks, but has a few frustrating problems.”
Jonas Luster: “This is huge and excellent news.”
ResourceShelf.com - “We’re very happy to see that Yahoo is now allowing users the option to cache a full text copies of web pages and then allow you to search your personal cache. ”
Larry’s Log - “I like what I see. I don’t know if it’s just where I am in my life right now or if Yahoo! has managed to tweak its portal offering to finally be of use to me but I think I’m going to be using this for a while.”

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