Week 9: Rollyo

I've created a search engine called "Aussie recipe sites" in Rollyo containing only 3 sites and managed to get a search box for it up on my blog, but I did find that a challenging task. Anyway, the search engine works to an extent, but I get a lot of irrelevant hits. I searched for "banana cake" and was taken first to actual recipes, but then other hits included pages where the term "banana cake" was mentioned in other contexts, so I will have to refine my search strategy. The big problem seems to be that Rollyo doesn't offer an Advanced Search option whereby you can cut out a lot of the non targeted stuff. Maybe it has but I haven't found it yet.
I can see that at work I can put together Rollyo search engines for the various student groups we have tailored toward their subject specialities and post it onto our learning management system that is coming "soon". Recently a health librarian on our library listserve asked if any other librarians could refer her to good free websites to do with pathology & anatomy with illustrations (I think...I'm working from home & can't check work emails) and she got some responses that she compiled into a list that she shared with the rest of us. I'll have a look at it and maybe it could be the basis of a Rollyo search for our pathology students.