Activity 5: Rollyo

This activity was all about discovering Rollyo, which is a personal search engine tool, that you create, for just the websites you know and trust.

My task for this activity was to explore Rollyo and create my own search roll for any subject I liked.

The search roll that I created was entitled "Books" and the web pages I listed to search through were book stores' websites and amazon.com.

Overall, Rollyo was easy to access and explore. It was very simple to create a search roll and add websites to it. Although, I have to say the sight wasn't too exciting, because there wasn't much to explore.

But this tool does have potential for its users. It makes searching easy, because you only go to the websites you know and trust. You don't have to sift through websites you don't know and may contain viruses when you go to them. I could see the use for it being a parental control tool too. My experience with Rollyo was good, yet uneventful. I found exploring LibraryThing, in the previous activity, more exciting than exploring Rollyo.

Here is the link to my search roll: http://www.rollyo.com/ladybugamelia12