Custom Search Engines

For the first assignment, I tried searching on "conduct" on both sites, and found that Google's brought back more varied results (Sno-Isle didn't show up in the results of Rollyo even after 5 screens). I liked Google better, though, not so much because of the results but simply because it was familiar. They both pulled up plenty of hits from KCLS and SPL. Neither search engines brought up a code of conduct for Sno-Isle, but the reason became apparent when I went to their website and noticed that their policy is termed "disruptive behavior".

For the second assignment, I tried setting up a Rollyo account and created a search engine for "Climate" - climate change info. I put in a few websites and tried a search. It worked fine and reminds me of that good old search engine Dogpile, or MetaSearch, or some of those others that collate results.

It also reminds me of our woe-begotten search tool (can't remember the name) that finally went the way of the dodo, the one that searched EVERYTHING, from the homepage, and brought back that horiffic long list of EVERYTHING.