Yahoo! is rolling out a new tool that will make internet research using the company's search engine much easier. It's called Search Pad, and it allows you to copy search results to a sort of online scratch pad associated with your account. You can add text from web pages, organize your notes, and save different search profiles.

One interesting thing is that Search Pad will automatically try to detect when you're researching information on a particular topic. For example, if you do repeated searches for travel destinations, a note may pop up asking if you'd like to start taking notes for your vacation planning. You can also launch the application manually by clicking an icon on the side of your Yahoo! search page. Or you can disable Search Pad if you get tired of it.

Yahoo! is starting a phased rollout of Search Pad today. If you don't have access to the feature yet, you may have to wait a few days.

You can see a video demo of Search Pad in action after the jump.