Monday, April 16, 2007

Rollyo and Google Custom Search

I went to both the KCLS Rollyo Search Roll and KCLS Google Custom Search sites. I have to say that I did not care for the Rollyo site. Too many commercials, for one, added to a confusing results display. The Google Custom Search site is user friendly and commercial free (that I can tell). The one thing I would have to criticize is that it resembles too closely the Google search engine and that could be confusing for people trying to compare results from searches in both.

To have access to my Rollio SearchRoll: http://rollyo.com/christel

To have access to my Google Custom Search: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009583909171872587507:cdgixedkera

I type the following search in each search engines (recettes poires)

Same observations as above: too many commercials with Rollyo.

Also, I like the feature with Google Custom Search where you can opt out or opt in the commercial section of your search engine.

I can definitively see a use for these kind of sites. It would be great for limiting the amount of search results and sources used for school reports (for examples) - resulting in the use of approved sites only. It would also be very useful searching various library databases for media (an alternative to Inter Library Loans and access to a wider range of databases to search from).

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