Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Thing 15-Rolling

I was not really impressed with Rollyo. I clicked on the listed Rollyo sites for searching for quotes and searching for public domain books and I was not impressed with the results. First of all on the results page, it brought up a Google search box front and center. I looked at some of the suggestions for quotes on "family" as an example and many of the sites were not relevant to quotations at all. Google seems just as efficient with more relevant results. I guess with Rollyo you don't need to type in as many words.
I went to the Rollyo site and tried to do a search on "China Travel." The results were all over the map. I had done a similar search in Google and found the results to be much more relevant and useful.
I don't know how or when I would use this tool because the searches are less relevant than Google in my opinion.
I created my own search roll featuring "Cheap Air Fare" and of course I looked the topic up in Google to get ideas for the sites to add into the rolled search. What I found was that my Google search was just as, if not more relevant the Rollyo search. Hmmm, I'm not really seeing the advantages with this one, but at least I know about it!
I'm going to try to add the search box to my blog, but I'm not usually too successful with some of the add ons. I'll see what happens. Hopefully it won't make me!@#$%&*