Monday, July 14, 2008

Roll your own search engine with Rollyo

I found Rollyo was a very user friendly site with clear instructions on how to register and set up your profile. To create your own searchroll all you had to do is pick the sites you want to search/trust in and a custom search engine is then automatically created for you - this saves time as you only need to go to your custom search engine and all the sites are there ready for you to access. This is fantastic particularly for kids/teens hunting for homework help, they no longer need to search every site, they can just access the custom search engine and all the well known sites are there like wikipedia.org

Kids/teens could customise their own searchrolls and share their searchrolls with other kids/teens in the library system, now there's a thought maybe Manukau Libraries could look at doing something similar to this.

Finally if you want to look at the two searchrolls I have created (Kids homework help and Family health) click onto the link below:

http://www.rollyo/nweb2

I did manage to do the optional part of the exercise and if you look to the right I have added my Rollyo Searchroll.



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