Rollyo & Snap
May 28, 2006
These are 2 new ideas in search engine market. Rollyo lets you create customized personal search engines. They’re using the Yahoo Search technology. So I think it works like del.icio.us; you select your favourite web sites for a topic. Then you can make inside them using the Yahoo’s power via Rollyo.. Is it a good idea? Well not exactly.. Because it’s basically no different than del.icio.us; you could do the same with an advanced search functionality in del.icio.us (you would specify keywords to search in pages with specific tags…..) However I still see a chance of being widely adopted and even being acquired in Rollyo.
Snap.. just a marketing wonder.. Nothing new.. They just put screenshots.. the other features do already exist in major search engines under beta/alpha programs.. And seems like there’s too much money in it.. I don’t think they can survive for long.
