Make something new...make a search engine!

Don't you just love a novel, original, no-one-even-dreamt-of-this-one idea?

So do I, and i love rollyo.

http://www.rollyo.com/index.html

The idea is to give people the tools to build their own customised search engines (without having to learn algorithms), to put on their website or whatever. Pick the sources you trust to be searched, and then rollyo creates your own personal search engine to search those sources. It's a pretty simple idea, but then again, aren't the simple, well executed ideas under everyone's noses the ones that stand out the most?

If you are going to the same sites again and again to look up stuff or whatever, why not create a rollyo to do the work for you? I think it's time that people used search for their OWN needs. Google is good, but you can't tailor it for just the content you want. Put customised search to work for you.






(btw, ruby on rails is going great, however, i'm reaching a roadblock. i have been using a bunch of tutorials and a little bit of reference to create some awesome results. But now the problem...to create what i want, i actually have to learn something, and do some REAL programming. All these tutorials have you copy and pasting 2 quick lines of condensed code(which they never explain for some reason) and doing this, that, and the other with the server/database, and voila! instant dynamic web content...but now i actually hove to learn those languages....ruby, rials and mysql. lol, the honeymoon period is over.

Ruby is pretty easy, and i have a basic understanding of rails works(but no idea about how to program it besides a couple command scripts), but when it comes to mysql, i have no idea what to do besides what i see in tutorials and books.)


That's all for now,
The befuddled developer