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I know I know, two posts in one day (actually, im 24 minutes into the next day but, eh). But I don’t really care. I felt the need to write about this. It seems anymore if you make a post more frequently than once a week you are uncool. But I digress..
Rollyo is a pretty new concept. It aims to put the search engine in the users hands. It allows you to create a specific “SearchRoll” that searches only the sites you want it to. For example, I could create a SearchRoll that would only search CollateralFX sites.
The problem I have with this is, is it really purposeful? I mean, I understand that it can make searching for a specific thing much easier, but if you know how to use google you can do the exact same thing.
I can see how it could be used for certain networks of sites and whatnot but, I just don’t see it being too incredibly useable.
On another related note.
The logo was elected “Logo Of The Month” over at BrainFuel(Great Read). I personally like it. People are scrutinizing the logo because it isn’t realistic. By that I mean, the center isn’t a swirl (which was intentional) and the band that comes off the role isn’t at the right angle.
It’s a logo people. The idea is to be simple. Not super-realistic. I think it does the job.
Anyways, what do you think? Useful or not? And have you created a SearchRoll? Link me.
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Jonno said,
Comment • October 5, 2005 @ 10:51 am
I think the idea was that it would resmble both a roll and a target, as in accuracy?
I can’t see it becoming anything. Most of the things people search for are too obscure to be on a whitelisted set of sites, and if they aren’t and you want quality search results, use dmoz.
I can’t see any practical use for it, but maybe I’m just not being creative enough.
Koray said,
Comment • October 5, 2005 @ 1:45 pm
Yeah. That’s exactly how I feel.
And yeah, you are right on with the target bit. ;D
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