Birmingham Web Designer Jeremy Flint blogs here. He works for Kinetic Communications. He organizes events and programs for IPSA. He takes pictures and posts them on Flickr. He also blogs about Hiking and Mississippi State Sports when he has the time. He recommends Dreamhost for all your hosting needs. Make sure you grab the RSS Feed.

It has finally launched into public beta, so I guess that means I can post about it. Rollyo is a site that lets you “roll your own” search engines, but selecting sites that you want included in it.

From the horse’s mouth:

Rollyo puts the power of Yahoo! Search in your hands, by giving you the tools to create your own personal search engines - with no programming required. All you have to do is pick the sites you want to search, and we’ll create a custom search engine for you.

So basically you are building your own index of sites that you want to search through. Say you are always looking for news on your favorite sports team. You could roll your own search engine that consists of all the major sports sites out there, and ignore the ones that are irrelevant or outdated.

I am still exploring the uses of Rollyo myself, but have already been impressed by the application.

The site template and logo were designed by Dan Cedarholm of SimpleBits. Great job all around.

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