Rollyo is an intresting service that lets users create personal search engines. Site provides easy to use tools that can be used to create customized search engine in a matter of seconds. The idea is to create search engine which will search for information only on the websites selected by user.
To create personal engine all you need to do is to add websites that will be used for search. You can create search engines which will for instance look for information only on the websites you trust. It is also quite handy tool for creating topic specific search engines(ex; jobs,football, metal music). By specifying right resources you can produce search tool which will return fewer but far more relevant search results than major search engines like Google or Yahoo.
Rollyo is getting popular and many people use it’s service to create custom engines. Here you may find bunch of cool search engines created by rollyo community. Rollyo calls these user-created engines searchrolls. You can save and personalize these searchrolls according to your needs. Once you produce some searchrolls you can decide whether to share them with rollyo community or not. Currently, there are about 150.000 different searchscrolls created by members. This service is completely free and no registration required for using most of the available tools. You may only need to register if you want to create your own rollyo profile.
In addition, Rollyo offers RollBar Bookmarklet, a browser tool that lets you conduct a local search on whatever site currently opened in the browser. This is especially useful, if site has no search option of it’s own.
And as always, lucky Firefox(firefox profile) users can create custom Searchrolls and add them to the browser. These searchrolls can have a topical list of upto 25 websites that will be used as a search source.
Overall, I think this is quite useful service, which is easy to operate and 100% free. You can check out list of all available tools offered by rollyo here. ok, time to roll…
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