Added the Sphere Search Engine to the sidebar last night and decided to give it a try. Typed in "Chiang Kai-Shek statues" and came up with…
Zip.
A whole lotta nothin’.
Man, that’s just pitiful! Last month, I wrote four or five posts about the abortive attempt to remove Chiang Kai-Shek statues from Taiwanese military bases. Needless to say, THAT search engine goes.
Then I tried out the Rollyo Search Engine. It’s set to preferentially search about 10 websites, and now I’ve got the opposite problem. Three PAGES of redundant links to my blog alone.
Ugh. I suppose it’s better than nothing, so I’ll leave it up for now. Let me know if any of you find it useful.
UPDATE (Oct 17/25): Since the migration from TypePad to WordPress on September 12, 2025, The Foreigner in Formosa blog now uses the native WordPress search function instead of Rollyo.
(At any rate, the Rollyo search engine ceased operation prior to September 17, 2012).