Rollyo is a web search tool that lives in your browser. It helps you focus on results from sites you trust.





You may be interested in doing web search the Rollyo way ie search in a focussed, targeted and personalised manner? I was, and this is what I found.

Rollyo search rolls - a list of trusted sites

Rather than return 345600000 results for a topic covered by every man and his dog, Rollyo focuses on results limited to sites you trust. Easier done than said!

First step - the browser bar widget

Drag the widget at the end of this article into your browser bar.

Second step - create custom search rolls

When you come across a website that you like, click on the Rollbar widget. A window pops up.

Either create a new search roll, name it and add the site to it, or add the site to an existing search roll listed in the widget.

For heavy users, you could create 10 or 20 search rolls and populate them with sites you encounter on your travels. - for instance, create a search roll called serious search engines, and go add Google and all that jazz to it. Eventually you have a useful Search engine search roll, or a humor search roll with The Pisstakers at the top! a car search roll...

To do a web search

You can do a search at any time, of course, straight from the browser. As an example, I typed in RSS as a search word, and chose the search to take place in sites limited to Pisstakers funny search roll. Rollyo obediently searched my fave humor sites ONLY and I got results from authors who interested me - not the 3 million who don't. Great for researching topics in your clique, don't you think.

Rollyo targets search perfectly

I could have tapped into the serious search engines search roll to get general results on RSS from google and more mainstream search sites. Or if I wanted results limited to a search of cool car sites I visit often, I could have targeted a ferrari search roll... although, I wonder what RSS has to do with cars?

Bottom line, whenever you do a search, the results need only include info from the sites you trust! Cool huh!!! And it is free, and indexing is comprehensive and it all looks pretty..

If it made any sense, drag this Rollyo Rollbar link to your Bookmark Bar and see what funny stuff brings up in the web search results.

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