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Roll your own search engine with Rollyo
A bit of buzz is building about a Web tool for easily creating personal search engines. I read about the tool, Rollyo, on Boing Boing.
Rollyo's engine, called a Searchroll, uses Yahoo search underpinnings to let people restrict Web searches to a selected list of sites.
Rather than scouring the entire Web for information (Google's latest count claims 8 billion pages in its index), Rollyo narrows the search scope to a user's trusted sites. According to the Rollyo team, there's no programming involved in setting up a Searchroll, which can search just one site or as many as 25.
Rollyo is also using its search tools to stitch together online communities. Users can share their own Searchrolls and look through the Searchrolls created by other users. A fun twist on this theme is High Rollers, a list of high profile Searchrolls from celebrities such as Debra Messing and Rosario Dawson as well as popular bloggers and other cultural figures.
Posted by Cathleen Moore on September 29, 2005 02:44 PM
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