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Entries Tagged as 'Announcements'

Scour Needs Your Vote

November 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Announcements, Events

Attention Scour Users!

As you may have heard, Mashable is hosting its 2nd annual Open Web Awards and we intend on winning for best “Social Search Engine” but we need you help!

Mashable is the largest blog for social network coverage. They are the go-to blog for the newest and trendiest web 2.0 sites on the [...]

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Scour Featured on InternetNews!

October 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Announcements

Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to say “Thank You” to  David over at InternetNews for the coverage he provided on Scour’s newest updates.
InternetNews is a great site to keep readers in the know, be sure to visit their site and check out the Scour Review.
Thanks again David!
-The Scour Team

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Scour pays everyone….even Zombies??

October 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Announcements

Today we wanted to share one of the best parts of working at Scour- The blog posts Scour users make when they get their reward!!  This one in is from one of our scour leaders who definitely lives/dies up to their screen name!
One of our Scour users by the the name of “ZombieMoney” was nice [...]

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Your Wish Is Our Command!

October 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Announcements, Bugfixes, Events

Since our launch, we’ve received tons of feedback from Scour users, so we’re pleased to be implementing some of your suggestions to help make you Scour experience even more efficient.  These updates should be live on Scour within a week.
Here is a taste of what we have been working on.  We look forward to hearing [...]

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The Building Blocks of a Social Search Engine

September 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Announcements

Lots of time and thought goes in to running a search engine, and an equal amount of consideration must go in to creating a social network. But what about when the two are added together? We at Scour would like to provide our users with the very best in content and give them [...]

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Improved Results for Scour Image Searches!

August 30th, 2008 · 12 Comments · Announcements

We have received a lot of great feedback and are excited to announce that we have improved our image search results.  As of now we are using Flickr photos to populate our image search. We felt that this was a necessary change due to some of the short-comings of our previous filters.  Scour wants to [...]

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Real Quick…

August 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Announcements

Just wanted to let everyone know that our servers are being updated right now and you might have some bounce backs when trying to email Scour or Scour Support (as some of you have already pointed out). This is only temporary and they will be up and running shortly!
Thanks so much,
Scour Team

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Scour Update – Changes For Users

August 27th, 2008 · 136 Comments · Announcements

The last several weeks following our launch have been quite a mix of experiences for the Scour Team. We are thrilled with the success and number of users that have made Scour their dedicated resource for search. However, we’ve also endured countless instances of false “users” who have attempted to gain rewards through invalid usage [...]

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