A new generation of search services goes beyond simple personalization, and lets you customize both your search topics and how results are presented.

Search engines have been quick to pick up on the fact that users want to personalize the information they are getting—Google offers personalized searching for example, and several other search engines will allow a certain level of user intervention with search results.

Now, however, a number of new services are providing ability to create your own search engine, and to search your way. Not literally of course—unless you have millions of dollars available it’s unlikely that you’re going to start your own search engine from scratch, but if you have a few minutes to spare you can do the next best thing, which is to piggyback on the work of others and create a search resource that works the way that you want it to.

Several services are now available, and today and tomorrow we’ll take a look at them. Specifically we have Rollyo, the Yahoo Search Builder, PSS! and Eurekster’s Swicki. Although they all claim to do the same job—create a search function for users, they all do it rather differently.

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