October 2nd, 2006
Build your own Google Search soon
IndexBench or Search Mashup — take your pick, it looks like Google is indeed developing a service similar to Rollyo. When launched, it will likely have a slow adoption rate like most of their other services — look at Google Co-op, it certainly hasn't made as much of a mark as they hoped.
Ionut from Google Operating System spots a piece of text on Time.com from Marissa Mayer that describes their efforts in this space:
"Marissa Mayer (…) says the company has assigned more engineers to search than ever before and plans to release a new search tool that will enable users to design and build their own flavor of Google search, scanning just the sites they’re interested in." - Time.com
In fact, if you go to SearchMash, one of the domains recently registered, you can play with Google's newest search engine. Among other things, it lets you drag around the results to reorder them — an interesting concept that could give them some valuable human input (similar to the image labeler they released a few weeks ago).
Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry.
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