Rollyo

Rollyo – roll your own search engine. At first I thought that this looked quite cool and I still do mostly, but I think that it’s got a major flaw: you can’t search any deeper than a whole domain. I want to be able to search into the directory structure of sites, so example.com/folder/ or even example.net?param=value&param2=value2.

Practical example of why this would be useful: I was trying to build a blosxom orientated search (that’s a link to my profile at Rollyo, as the searches themselves use javascript and I haven’t worked out how to link to one directly yet), but for it to be useful I’d like to be able to search pages like del.icio.us/tag/blosxom and groups.yahoo.com/group/blosxom – limiting the search to groups.yahoo.com or del.icio.us returns far too many false positives without using quite refined search terms, which seems to me to sort of defeat the object somewhat.

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