Search the web with Scour – a new social search engine…that pays you for searching!
Scour is a new social search engine that employs the power of the top 3 search engine giants: Google, Yahoo and MSN. The best part of Scour: You can gain points to redeem for Visa gift cards that can used to make purchases wherever Visa is accepted. FREE VISA CARDS without the credit strangulation!
How do you get points?
- Search! Just like how you perform a search at Google, Yahoo or MSN. Scour pulls the top results from all three engines. You get the best of the best.
- Vote! Help Scour identify the top results for search terms. Or see something that should not be listed, vote it down.
- Comment! You can add comments about the search results. For example: “I love IslamCrunch!”
- Add friends! Here is where the social aspect comes in. You get 25% of the points that your friends gather. Add more friends, gain more points.
Scour is brand new! The search engine was launched on July 14, 2008. Need an invite? Click here: http://scour.com/invite/islamcrunch
UPDATE: The easiest way to gain points is to add Scour in your browser search bar. They have options for Firefox and Internet Explorer. No need to remember every time about going to Scour.com. Just search from your browser window!
Check out their blog: http://blog.scour.com/ and find links to their Facebook page, Twitter account and read news about their operations.
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Chris Says: July 21st, 2008 at 8:43 am
Me.dium recently released a social search engine that works in a similar fashion. Instead of incentivizing involvement in social search, Me.dium uses past click streams and searches to compile the most relevant results. The more people using, by downloading a social toolbar or sidebar, the better the results become.
Me.dium’s Social Search, which leverages the Yahoo! Search BOSS platform, provides an entirely new level of information on top of traditional search. Me.dium’s Social Search harnesses the activity of the crowds to let you find information that has relevance based on what people are actually surfing right now.
Me.dium’s technology lets the inherent activity of real people – not robotic crawlers – determine relevance. Me.dium’s Social Search results show what people are surfing and find interesting, right now. While other search engines base relevance on how content links across pages, Me.dium’s Social Search shows you the most popular news, reviews, pictures and videos that other people are actually looking at in relation to your search term. And as the activity of the people online changes, so do the search results.
Mikael Pittam Says: July 21st, 2008 at 9:14 am
Hi Chris, thanks for sharing. I tried Me.dium when it was first launched. I will have to check it out again.
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