Thing 15. Rollyo

Rollyo, as I understand it is a personal search engine one creates to provide relevant results from a selected list of reliable sites. I signed up for an account and looked at some of the sites using the search term "history." I looked at three personal sites: advertising history rolled by imareader; apollo space history rolled by lyndonsharp; and civil war history rolled by Cara Orban. They were all interesting but I was confused at times as to whether I was looking at advertising on the site or a link to a "reliable" site.

While the concept is interesting, we have access to so many search engines such as Yahoo, and Google that this is just one more to add to the list. These sites might or might not be relevant for in-depth research. I would compare a Rollyo to a subject guide that a librarian would create. This might be a useful tool to replace subject guides. It would be lot easier to edit than an HTML created guide.