"Rollyo just might be the perfect search engine."
"Rollyo Offer(s) Web Search Services The Big Engines Don't."
Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal
http://ptech.wsj.com/"The big search engines are great for everyday queries, but what if the information you're looking for is a bit esoteric? Rollyo is the place to go."
PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/"Rollyo Owns Me: I don't normally sit around thinking about how much the world needs another search engine -- better searches of all the "dark Web" info that's out there and untapped, sure, but I like Google/Yahoo /Ask just fine. However, I am hereby obsessed with Rollyo's customizable "trusted search," which promises to help me contain certain overgrown sections of my 2000-entry-plus bookmark list. It's a simple, wonderful thing..."
Angela Gunn, USA Today
http://usatoday.com/"I really can't say enough about Rollyo, which has proven to be an exciting search model. It's basically a "U-Pick-It" search engine that lets you narrow your searches to a customizable list of sites that you choose. Anyone can create and edit their own filtered search engine. You can also embed the engine in your web page or in your Firefox toolbar."
Wired
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/monkeybites/"It's simple, fast, effective and flexible. "
Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch/"Save your new "engine" in your free Rollyo account, and the next time you need to search for news, don't log onto Google or Yahoo; log onto Rollyo, and you'll find that your mini search will return far more relevant and useful information than the "brand name" search engines ever did! ... You'll save yourselves gobs of time using your new, slim and trim customized search engine!"
Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/"A welcome retreat from the current in-your-face information chaos of the web."
Read/WriteWeb
http://readwriteweb.com/"They've also created a new search tool, called the Rollbar Bookmarklet, that can be added to the browser and allow users to do a search on whatever site is open in the browser currently ... This is a very cool and permanent addition to my browser."
Michael Arrington, Techcrunch
http://techcrunch.com/"Winner. Best Trusted Search..."
Web 2.0 Awards
Web2.0Awards.org"There's a new site online that is stirring up some buzz, called Rollyo. Essentially, you can choose a bunch of sites and give it a name--Rollyo then indexes those sites, and you can search it. Even more, you can share this index with other people"
Gary Stein, Jupiter Research
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/"The four-month-old startup lets you "roll your own search engine" by choosing precisely which sites to search. So if you type a word into a one of these "searchrolls," you get results from only those sites. You can also share these searchrolls with others."
Rob Hof, BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/"In an environment where new online products debut daily, search firm Rollyo took a personalized step to ensure its launch would not go unnoticed."
PR Week
http://www.prweek.com/"Liable to swamp you with irrelevant results, Google can be a lottery for those looking for a particular nugget of information. A more refined search engine is www.rollyo.com, which allows you to define groups of trusted sites to search and share them with others, just like the Will and Grace star Debra Messing has with her Style Shops list."
The Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/"Rollyo.com (Roll Your Own) is a perfect example of a web-based service that builds on the power and stability of established services, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel or tackle a market leader head-on ... The interesting thing here is that they haven't built a search engine — they've just built a better interface to one, focusing on a clear purpose, slick design and sense of community."
37 Signals
http://37signals.com/"Rollyo offers the ability to search the content of a list of specified websites, allowing you to narrow down the results to pages from websites that you already know and trust."
BBC World
http://news.bbc.co.uk/"It's an easy and effective way to narrow your search results down to trusted sources only ... The best part about Rollyo is that they offer ready-to-paste code that makes your searchroll portable."
Wired
http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/monkeybites/"Top Ten Office Web 2.0 Apps"
Publish Magazine
http://www.publish.com/"Hot Site of the Day"
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/"Rollyo is a pretty amazing idea. If you want to search sites that you trust and weed out all the junk, you can make a list of just the sites you want to search and save that list."
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/"What makes Rollyo noteworthy is that it adds a social component to search by allowing you to share your searchrolls with the Internet community"
InformationWeek
http://www.informationweek.com/"I've very bullish on Rollyo and will be monitoring the site for changes and enhancements. I've been wanting something like this for a long time. Kudos to Dave Pell and his team."
Gary Price, Search Engine Watch Blog
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/"There may be a billion interesting sites on the Web, but in many cases, I'm only interested in results from one of them, or maybe from a handful. Rollyo ... lets you create a searchroll of sites to search."
Guardian Unlimited
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/"Plain and simple, Rollyo allows you to create a search engine based on any criteria that you see fit. From digital cameras to triathletes, Rollyo is one cool way to gather information. The site is designed well and super easy to use. Great application!"
Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005
http://www.articledashboard.com"Researchers, professionals, businessmen and others who use the Net for accessing the latest information generally go through a set of specific Web resources. Rather than searching the whole web, they can get more relevant output by focussing on subject-specific sites alone. Rollyo addresses this requirement quite efficiently."
The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/"Now you can create your own search engine that will only search the sites you want to search."
G4 TechTV
http://www.g4techtv.ca/"Do you ever go to your favorite search engine looking for something that should be easy to find, but get so many irrelevant results that you feel overwhelmed? Rollyo ... does something to address that problem."
About.com
http://www.about.com/"The great thing about search engines like Yahoo and Google is how they index so much information and return results from that index based on a query. The great thing can also be a bad thing, as irrelevant results can crowd out the ones someone needs from a query."
WebProNews
http://www.webpronews.com/"Rather than scouring the entire Web for information (Google's latest count claims 8 billion pages in its index), Rollyo narrows the search scope to a user's trusted sites."
InfoWorld
http://weblog.infoworld.com/"Everyone is talking about social search startup Rollyo today, which just launched it's site. Rollyo let's you create a searchroll ... then share those searchrolls with other people."
Business2.0
http://business2.blogs.com/"Every so often someone comes up with a really cool idea for a website that's so useful you find yourself asking 'why didn't anyone think of that until now?' or 'why didn't I think of that!'"
The Simple Web
http://thesimpleweb.blogspot.com/"I tried it out and it is easy. It took about seven minutes and was actually a lot of fun. Rollyo has a delightful design, a simple and uncluttered user interface and a great service."
Pandia Search Engine News
http://www.pandia.com/sew/"I'm not exactly sure what the precise criteria is for Web 2.0 products, but several of the products demoed at the Web 2.0 conference caught my attention."
Dan Farber, ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/"Any way you want it, That's the way you need it, Anyway you want it.."
SearchViews
http://searchviews.com/"The site is smart and has kept me clicking through it kinda the way MySpace does, just to see who's there and what sites they select for searching."
Search Engine Lowdown
http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/"You might create one called "digital cameras" that would scan just your five favorite review sites, so you don't have to go to each one individually or wade through the miscellany Google returns. You can also use others' Searchrolls, such as the one on string theory compiled by physicist Brian Greene."
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