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The Scour Team!

November 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General

Hey Everyone,
You ever have one of those days where you just the need to take a pre-planned group photo?  Well we did!  We thought today would be a good day to take a group shot of the scour team!
From the left we have Alina, Tami, David, Vanessa, Diana, Tony, Alina and Cynthia.  In the back [...]

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California Fires – Feeling the Heat

October 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments · General

As any Californian will tell you, we’re facing some serious heat this month, not from the economy, but from fires that are blazing across the state. Well known search industry expert and CA resident, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land pulled together some great resources to monitor fires and even witnessed [...]

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Putting the “Social” in Social Search

September 12th, 2008 · 7 Comments · General

It is our continued mission at Scour to build a search community, one that fosters communication between the user and search results to order to create the best search experience possible.  After all, how can we call ourselves a social search engine, if it lacks that critical communication?
Keeping with this theme, AltSearchEngines wrote [...]

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A Scour, Cuil and Google Face-Off: How each stacks up with results

August 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General

One of our users alerted us to a test that TheSEOCyclone.com ran recently between Cuil, Google, and Scour to find out which search contender  provided the most results. After plugging in the search query “How to use a tachograph,” the results filed in and Scour came out on top with more than both [...]

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Scour User Abuse Guidelines

August 6th, 2008 · 33 Comments · General

We would first like to thank all of our helpful community members on Scour; our continued success of our community is based on your contributions. As you may have heard, we already had our first Scour cash payout along with others and plenty more coming up.
Lately, there have been several members who are unclear as [...]

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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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The Beginning of a New Era

July 8th, 2008 · 26 Comments · General

We are proud to announce that the social search engine AfterVote is now known as Scour! This is a huge step forward in the evolution of this fine offering. Earlier this year AfterVote was acquired by ABCSearch, one of the largest pay-per-click search companies in the world. As a result of this acquisition, the product [...]

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