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Entries from July 2008

Week 3: Answering more of your questions

July 29th, 2008 · 47 Comments · Uncategorized

We continue to receive an overwhelming number of comments…thanks again, everyone! We’ve seen some of the same questions popping up and wanted to jump in and answer them here. Keep ‘em coming!
Can you explain the Scour points calculator? It appears it does not take into account the 500 point daily limit.
We will be adding the [...]

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Happy Friday!

July 25th, 2008 · 21 Comments · Uncategorized

Thanks for everyone’s support this week.  We’ve been frenzied since the launch but have had the opportunity to interact with a lot of new people.
Almost universally the reaction to what we’re doing here has been positive, but as with anything new some issues pop up.  We’re working hard to resolve these as soon as they’re [...]

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Thanks! We like you too

July 24th, 2008 · 13 Comments · General

We’re not going to spend a ton of time patting ourselves on the back here, but we do want to take a moment to call out a post over at smemon.com
Thanks for the write up!  We particularly liked this ‘graph:
“Ok, i know some of you are thinking ‘Agloco’ - but the actual product - the [...]

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Search Engine Update features Scour!

July 18th, 2008 · 23 Comments · Uncategorized

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Day four - answering your questions!

July 17th, 2008 · 30 Comments · Uncategorized

It’s day three of the Scour launch, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to answer some questions we’ve gotten from new searchers…
Do I have to download the toolbar and give my personal info just to search?
Nope! Of course we’d love to have you sign up, but the search engine is free and open to [...]

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scour on techcrunch… help us digg!

July 16th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized

[digg=http://digg.com/tech_news/Scour_com_Search_Better_and_earn]
Hey all… Dan, our CEO here at Scour, is on techcrunch! And we need your help to digg the story! Just click on the digg icon in this post to vote for your new favorite search engine. Thanks so much! Check out the video below…
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keeping scour safe and awesome!

July 16th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Uncategorized

Thanks to all of you Scour users who are making scour your new search engine, we aim to satisfy all of your search needs for a long time to come!  One way we aim to do this is to ensure the legitimacy of user contributions across our network.  There have already been several users trying to [...]

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launch day madness!

July 14th, 2008 · 38 Comments · Uncategorized

Wow, what a busy day we’re having launching Scour! Thanks to everyone who has visited, signed up and started using the site! Check out all the buzz here…
I am very pleased with initial user thoughts and feedback we’ve been getting.  People are really understanding the value of scour we had envisioned when re-designing the product, [...]

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Early Scour news!

July 13th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized

Our official launch is tomorrow! And the buzz is already getting around…
Check out the articles from Josh at Webware and Paul at Mashable, and our quick pitch that made it on TechCrunch! We’ve gotten some great reviews and are really looking forward to hearing what our users think of the site… check back often as we [...]

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scour how-to!

July 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Check out our handy post on how to use Scour!
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