Thing 15 - Rollyo

The other day, Alice came to me and asked about my thoughts on rollyo. Of course, I hadn't dont that Thing yet, but I had checked it out a bit. I thought it seemed kinda neat, but she said (and a few others agreed) that it was stupid. If you have been following my blog, you know that I am pretty critical about a lot of the Things. But this one I like. I could see how it would be of no help to the casual internet searcher, when google would be sufficienct. But, if you are like me with a bunch of neat-o sites, some of which are similar in topic, rollyo could be really useful. I haven't actually set up my own searchroll, but I plan to when I get home. I do really like the pre-created e-books search - a lot of times, professors will assign us readings for a book that isn't checked in at the library and it would be easier to just read online, the search would come in handy for such times. Also, this would filter out all the dumb extraneous links you can sometimes get when you google. Let's see...in the library this would be useful for the Great Links! available on our site, since a number of them are very similar. Also, it would be great for searching a bunch of databases at once (though ACLD and the UF libraries already have a search-all kinda thing).