Just popped over to Rollyo and created an account for my searching needs. When I tried to add Google as one of my sources though, I was told the results would only be from Google's corporate page because the website is limited to static (non-dynamic) search results.
[Edit 7.19.2024]
Another casualty of the information revolution. Rollyo is now defunct. Here's what it was - for the historians out there:
Rollyo was a Yahoo!- powered search engine which allowed users to register accounts and create personalized search engines. Each search engine could include up to 25 websites/blogs chosen by the user. Search results were limited to the sites included in a particular search engine. Additionally, users could share their "rolled" engines with other contributors or post a mini search box to the user's website using HTML. It was also possible to add each "searchroll" to the Mozilla Firefox search bar and to make Rollyo the default search engine for Firefox.
In other words - I could search Google's privacy policy because this doesnt change - but search results which are dynamically generated aren't browsable by Rollyo. This is a strange limitation for a metasearch engine (an engine which searches and obtains results from other engines).
Personally - I don't see it replacing Google anytime soon - because I found myself searching google for the links i was gonna use in my "roll". Considering you can also use google to search individual sites through the advanced search option - the usefulness of this product drops even more.
http://rollyo.com/secretsketcher/mesoamerican_art/
But for what it's worth - here's my lean and mean Mesoamerican page. Mostly art and manuscripts - with some general information and cultural sites thrown in for good measure. And to round it out - I threw in amazon for links to relevant books - which explodes the search results into the tens of thousands - because there is no intelligent filtering going on under rollyo, unfortunately. Enjoy!
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