Thing 15: Rollyo

Select...RC CarsSearch The Web

Pretty niffty tool for conglomerating search tools. I'm not sure how useful it would be in a library setting unless you at a set number of websites you search on a regular basis. It doesn't appear to be what I though it was at the start. I first though it compiled your search request in to whatever search engines you select, but rather is searches out websites instead.

It does a rather thorough job of searching the websites you select. My search of the term, "Bandit" yielded many, many pages from the preselect websites I entered. However, much to my dismay, Rollyo also included "partner" sites which supposedly matched my term. I guess this how they provide a free service by putting in advertisers as part of the yielded search terms.

All in all, I think I could live without Rollyo. It is niffty, but there are far better Web 2.0. tools out there.