Monday, August 6, 2007

Rollyo

First of all, how is this pronounced? Is it pronounced as "Roll-yo" or as "Rolli-o"? Regardless, for some reason I have this overwhelming urge to continuously pronounce it "Rolli-olli", which makes me feel like I am talking about a new breed of pasta, but makes me smile nonetheless:)

Anyways, here is a genuine, Melissa-created search engine:

http://rollyo.com/mesnyder/exercise_dvd_reviews/

This task was surprisingly easier than I originally anticipated. It was quite easy to figure out the purpose of this tool, and I can see where I would turn to this site if I needed to do some targeted searching. However, I feel that the sheer volume of available search engines kind of mandate that you do some work beforehand and explore the different website combinations that form some of these engines. For example, if there are 15 search engines on topic x, there are bound to be repeat sites, but also some serious duds. If this was to be used in a professional setting, I think it would be helpful to come up with a list of reliable Rollyo search engines with two evaluation components: an evaluation of the independent sites that comprise the search engine, and an evaluation of the search engine as a whole.

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