Rollyo or Google Custom

I used the search term "branch locations" in Rollyo and came up with pages and pages of results that listed Seattle Public but none of the other libraries. I spent quite a lot of time going page to page and not finding anything but Seattle Public. I changed the search terms to "library branch locations" and though the ads moved to the top of the page rather than being interpersed, there were still no results other than Seattle Public. I then went over to Google custom and tried the search terms "branch locations" and on the first page of results King County, Sno-Isle and Seattle Public showed up. I looked through about 18 pages and Tacoma Public did not show up. I definitely liked the look of Google custom much better than Rollyo and the results were much better! I thought the Rollyo page was much too cluttered.

I created my own search engine in Google custom and then tried it out. It worked great! What a fun thing to do and I can see some real advantages to using a limited set of web pages. It seems a little like Bloglines but with a much narrower scope. It's much easier to go through the results when you have just a few websites!

Here's the link to my search engine:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004868165741088363653%3Aywztfz3wf7e