Roll your own Firefox Search Engine

by Ken Yarmosh | January 12, 2006 | Posted in: Tech and Productivity

Dave Pell was nice enough to give me a heads up on Rollyo’s new simplified means to create customized Firefox Search Engines.

After adding sources, the user clicks “Create Search Engine” and then is quickly prompted to add the Searchroll to Firefox. While this sort of feature was available before, this tweak was a smart move by Dave and the Rollyo team. I’m going to use it as an example in my next Opportunities 2006 post on usability. Look for that tomorrow.

If you are interested in learning more about Rollyo, you can read my post about Searchboxes, Searchrolls, and Firefox or check out my interview with Dave Pell.

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  1. TECHNOSIGHT » Opportunities 2006 - Usability
    January 13, 2006

    [...] Focusing on usability does not implicitly require a complete overhaul of a service. For example, yesterday I wrote about rolling your own Firefox Search Engine with Rollyo. This “new” service actually already existed but in a different form. Previously, users could go to their tools section once signed-in and add a Searchroll to the Firefox Toolbar. Now, however, Rollyo has streamlined the process by: 1) Not requiring a user to create an account. 2) Removing the “Searchroll” Rollyo jargon in place of the more widely known “Firefox Search Engine” terminology. 3) Automatically adding the engine to the Firefox Toolbar at the end of the process. 4) Wrapping all of that into its own page. [...]

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  1. Jennifer at Eurekster says:
    January 19, 2006 at 4:41 pm

    Hi Ken,
    If you like rollyo, you might want check out http://www.swicki.com. Would really like to hear what you think about swickis.

    Regards,
    Jennifer
    Eurekster Team

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