Comments on: Logo of the Month #2

By: ST

ST — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:32:52 +0000

Does kind of look like a fruit un-winder sweet though

By: simon

simon — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:39:05 +0000

Well, I think its a clean vissually impressive logo.. for a kids sweet. Like a lot of peeps I can’t see any relation to a search engine, however – that wouldnt matter if it was already well known.. which it isn’t, and I personally think ‘rollyo’ is too easily wrongly remembered.. give me ten minutes and I’ll be thinking, rolloy? rollio etc.. just my humble opinion. Nice clean graphic though.

By: Nathan S.

Nathan S. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:04:52 +0000

I would have to agree that the logo goes very well with the name rollyo very visually impressive, but yes theres a but… just looking at the name and logo I would never put it together with a search, but I guess who would think of google as a search engine it it wasnt so widely known?

By: Koray Online

Koray Online — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:46:45 +0000

Roll.. Yo.

I know I know, two posts in one day (actually, im 24 minutes into the next day but, eh). But I don’t really care. I felt the need to write about this. It seems anymore if you make a post more frequently than once a week you are uncool. But I dig…

By: Jacek

Jacek — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:11:59 +0000

is Rollyo a Target subsidiary?

By: SomeCleverIdentity

SomeCleverIdentity — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:35:49 +0000

Wow, you guys are intense! I thought I was anal retentive – over analytical!! Geesh…

Still interesting, though.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:17:02 +0000

Sorry, it should be pronounced “Roll-Yo.” As in “Roll Yo Own.”

If they start saying “Roll Your Own Search” then I would think people would pronounce it “Roll-Yo.”

I don’t think a magnifying glass would give the same “Roll It, Yo” effect. I like that the logo is not cliche. Much heart for the magic of the internets.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:21:54 +0000

Ok, I have an email from Dave Pell at Rollyo and here’s what he says about the pronunciation:

Ah, is there a betting pool?

It is Roll-eeee-O

Dave

By: snook.ca - a collection of tips, tricks and bookmarks in web development

snook.ca - a collection of tips, tricks and bookmarks in web development — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:14:05 +0000

Rollyo: Roll your own search engine

Rollyo is still in beta but has now been released to the general public. The idea behind it is that you can select a number of sites that you can search at once. This way, you can create customized topical…

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:30:04 +0000

Dan C: Aha! Now I get the name. Makes total sense. I like it. The bulls eye concept makes a lot of sense. You guys have a cool thing going.

By: db smith

db smith — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:25:50 +0000

I know why it looks so out of perspective! The strip that comes off the right side is about half again as tall as it should be.

By: Dan Cederholm

Dan Cederholm — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:50:01 +0000

Thanks for the nomination!

To help clarify things a bit: Rollyo is short for “Roll Your Own (search engine)”, hence the roll. Technically, yes, a roll would be spiraled — but this the magical pretend world of the internets. Where anything can happen!

But more seriously, the bulls-eye is intentional — where Rollyo provides “targeted” search results by “rolling” your own “searchrolls”. I should’ve gone with a magnifying glass

By: db smith

db smith — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:30:13 +0000

(actually, now that I think about it, it would be possible to get a roll that looked like in the picture– but you’d have to do some math to figure out how long each colored section would need to be…. ugh)

And it looks out of perspective to me, too, though I can’t say why exactly…

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:57:41 +0000

Dan: Oh man, you are sooo right. Weird.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:54:22 +0000

Jessica: Those are some good thoughts and I’ll admit the name has me confused. I am not sure. They should put something up there to tell people how to pronounce it. Oh well.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:49:50 +0000

Overall, I dig it but the perspective bugs me. I like the color and (here comes a pun… wait for it… wait for it) flavor. But the back strip should have the same angle of top as the front roll, eh?

I like the implied though. Bullseye. Hip. Fun. SweetDude. Logo for search engine is a stretch for me, but I can see a thought process.

Is it “Roll-Yo” or “Rolly-O”?

By: db smith

db smith — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:43:50 +0000

If it’s really something that unrolls, wouldn’t the red and white stripes be a spiral?

(Sorry, that was the engineer in me speaking)

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:33:45 +0000

Yeah, it does kind of look like a fruit rollup! Hehe, funny!

By: Alec

Alec — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:16:39 +0000

I have to agree with Mark… reminds me of fruit rollups, and not Rolly, like a logo should.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:10:43 +0000

Is it candy?
Looks like the fruit rollups my four year-old enjoys — not a search engine.

Cool graphic, yes — but logo? Errrr…