I don’t know if any of you have found a posting on Rollyo in your feedreader yet, but you need to check it out. I have created a portfolio already, and I will be posting some of my own searchrolls. Currently I have only played with one searchroll. The searchroll is on the RootSmart.com Family. It searches the main site, this blog and the podcast. That way you can search everything that I have posted up on any of the sites.
Now, when first playing with this site, I noticed a couple of things. The first and most foremost is that the search is powered by Yahoo. That means that Rollyo uses Yahoo’s index. This is fine, except that Yahoo’s index is not as large as Google’s. Also, I find that Google does a much better job and getting to every link and every image on a website. One major pitfall of this service is the fact that for a website to be searchable, it must have been indexed by Yahoo. As of the writing of this post, my blog has not been indexed yet. So, even though it says it is searching my blog, it isn’t. This is a major flaw, and one that Rollyo probably should post somewhere.
Other than that one gripe, I find services like this amazing. With the world of AJAX, all of this wonderful functionality can be integrated into the site, without huge browser requirements. That is a very new, and nice thing to have.
So, with that downfall in mind, go check out Rollyo and have fun with it. If you come up with some great searchrolls, post them in the comments and we will check them out.
