Hitting reverse a little before wrapping things up...
Hmm nope. Not keen on Rollyo at all. At least as far as personal use goes, I would never spend time finding the right specialized search engine and then trying to use that. I don't know if other people are a lot more willing to search and play around with tangentially related resources, but I usually have a pretty good time of typing what I'm looking for into Google, and it comes up without too much effort or it doesn't (this is with regards to personal use, mind you). This to me seems like just another tool that tries to dance around getting a task done in some clever way. I admire that it's trying to give users control of their search resources but...I don't need it.
However, this isn't to say that Rollyo is useless. I can see how you might use it to build specialized engines for patrons to utilize, and build a hub of not only links but entire search engines (both ones the library compiled and ones they found on Rollyo already set for use). I do wonder if patrons would even be interested in this kind of resource or if they'd just proceed directly to Google because they are used to the results that it provides and their degree of good enough-ness. And with so many user-generated engines, how do you determine which ones are good and have a thoughtfully curated bunch of resources? Rollyo has possibilities for use in the library, certainly, but not without some hitches.
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