The idea of being able to customize searches allows us the search only the websites that are relevant to our needs. I can see the advantage of a customized search engine geared for libraries to ensure that the websites found actually contain relevant and useful information for our patrons. Also, it weeds out the junk, for profit websites that distract us from finding the information we really need.
Additionally, it is nice to have a search engine that doesn't assume I want information about Turkey (the bird) when I am actually looking for information about the country. Alas, this is one of my Google pet peeves.....
As for a preference of one custom search engine over the other, I don't really have one. It seems to me that functions and layouts are inherently quite similar, it is just a matter of choosing between the two. I chose Rollyo this time because I kind of feel like Google is going to take over the world and that could be scary.
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