What are some innovative ways that libraries and librarians could use custom search engines?
Creating a custom search engine in Rollyo led me to see how librarians could easily adapt searches for particular subject areas. While it takes thought and time to produce a list of possible search sites, the advantages out weigh any disadvantages. Through assembling a list of specific sites, a librarian could easily limit the information that is returned by a search. I'd like to think a librarian's efficiency would increase by not having to weed through the multitudes of information that would occur from a traditional web search. Librarians could also adapt custom search engines to answer reference questions. Accomplishing this could be as easy as searching reference blogs such as those found at, http://blogs.botw.org/Reference/Libraries/
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I like your idea of searching reference blogs for reference questions. Many libraries publish subject guides for their patrons as part of their reference service. How easy it would be to take web links from those subject guides and use them to a create a custom search engine for that specific subject.