Rollyo: Create Your Own Personalized Search Engine and Share it with Others

A Terrific Tool for Associated Content Producers to Get Their Work Seen

Do you get tired of trying to search for something on Yahoo or Google only to come up with so many web sites more dedicated to selling you a product than with providing you information? Of course, you do. Silly question. Wouldn’t you love to be able to search just the top twenty or so sites you know you can trust to give you what you need without having to go through the trouble of filtering them somehow?

I came across this thing on Firefox called Rollyo, which basically lets you create your own customized search engine of up to 25 of your favorite web sites. Not only can you customize your own search engine, but you can even give it a unique name, and not only that, but you can share it with other users as well as using their Rollyo search engines! Do you enjoy Will & Grace? Then check out the Rollyo search engine chock full of online shopping sites supposedly created by star Debra Messing. Or, if politics is your thing, check out Arianna Huffington’s Rollyo search engine staffed with blogs. Or check out Lord Love a Search Engine, my own personal individualized Rollyo search engine.

If you have the Firefox browser, you can add Rollyo up there to your list of search engines. The first web site I added to my search roll was Associated Content, of course, which also makes it a terrific tool for content producers to get their stuff out there. The more people who make their own Rollyo search engine with Associated Content on it, the more people who can share their search engine. The more people who are using those shared search engines, the more traffic to this site. And so and so forth. In addition, as part of the sharing process you can also actually email your search roll to someone.