Rollyo is a different kind of search engine. The name is a short form of “Roll Your Own”, and basically, you pick pool of websites that you like, that you trust, that you value… and this becomes the pool that you search in. You can put only 25 URLs in each serachroll. For example, I made a Web Development searchroll; so far it only has a little over a dozen sites listed, but I can edit that list after the fact.
This is interesting, because you can see other peoples searchrolls, add them to your list. It reminds a little of del.icio.us, in that you can see other peoples “bookmarks”, as it were; but instead of just viewing their favorite links, it’s a search engine that searches through their (or your) favorite sites.
It reminds me of the human created search directories, like Dmoz, except that the sites are chosen by users. Check it out… see what you think.
