Rollyo is a site where users can create their own search engines from sites they know and trust. The purpose of this is I assume to cut out the time wasting which occurs on google and similiar search engines when thousands of results come up and one is left to wade through many irrelevent results before getting to what you are really after. Sounds good in theory. As it happens I have been looking to purchase some electrical goods lately - a new camera and maybe a DVD player as well, so I took the opportunity to create my own search engine "Buying Electrical?" using the sites of five of the local big retailers.
I invite you to peruse at the link below:
http://rollyo.com/aj25/buying_electrical/
The results, I have to say were mixed at best. The site is very slow and I encountered frequent error messages and had to retry many times. There is also no scope for refining search results, I typed in "lg DVD players" and somehow got over 1900 results! Perhaps Rollyo isn't ideal for this particular use, as by the time I created it I could have visited the sites individually and using the inbuilt search functions of each one got what I wanted more quickly. After all you have to know the sites already to put them in the search.
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Well incidentally I am in the market for a DVD player myself so your rollyo was quite helpful! Although I can see that the limitations you listed are definitely there. Rollyo can be quite temperamental so you've done well to persevere!
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