In Library School Reference class my professor defined search engines quite tightly. In fact, she believed Yahoo was not a search engine, it was a directory. I remember getting that wrong on a quiz because I disagreed! But in the case of Rollyo, I can see what she meant. I'm sure she would define the lists of sites created on Rollyo as directories more than search engines per se.
Regardless, if you like to go on rabbit trails, this is the place to be! Searching 'recipes' produced an impossibly long list that could have lost me forever. However, the rare books site couldn't find "Fair's Fair" by Leon Garfield. KG used to have this book, which I read to my 6th graders every Christmas. Then they weeded it!! Augh!! I haven't found it anywhere, since. But the search site did land me finally at Amazon, where someone is selling it for $120. Good grief, Grandville, you should have kept it!!
My search roll is "Tolkien Things" and it's nice to have all my favorite fan websites in one organized place. Find it at http://www.rollyo.com/index.html
The Google coop is interesting, but at first glance it looks like it is more oriented to business than to lay people 'playing' with the web. It's quite formal in its layout and more high tech. My search for Tolkien here produced some good sites for use in, say, a school research paper. Teachers should know about the possibilities here. They could create a search engine of approved sites to use to research assigned topics. They could attach it to their own home page and make it a lot easier for students to find research sources.
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