Scour is Upgrading Its Reward System to Include All Countries and Increase Payouts!

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(UPDATE TO REWARDS SYSTEM, READ HERE: http://blog.scour.com/2009/09/01/scour-focuses-on-search-and-features/ )

Dear Scour Users,

Over the last year we have seen tremendous growth thanks to the feedback from the Scour community. As a result, we are excited to announce that we are upgrading our current point rewards system as of September 1, 2009, and instead we will be offering a daily cash giveaway of $25, 7 days a week! This new cash giveaway rewards program is available to users in ALL countries around the world.

The rules are very simple; you are given 1 daily giveaway entry for every search, vote and comment on Scour. Each point enters you into our $25 daily Cash Giveaway drawing. This means that if you have a total of 10 searches, Scour will award you with 10 entries to win $25 for that day. The more that you search and participate on Scour, the more entries you will receive with a daily max of 350 entries per day. At the end of the day, the daily $25 Scour Cash Giveaway will reset giving you another chance to win!

You will also be happy to know that there are no restrictions to how many times the same person can win per week or per month. This means that you can win daily if you are chosen as the winner.

Scour Referrals:

The Scour referral system also also lets you take advantage of the giveaway. With the new rewards system in place, users will receive 1/4 (25%) of a give away entry for every search, vote and comment that their friends do. This means that for every 4 giveaway entries your “invited” friends generate, you will receive 1 additional daily Scour Giveaway entry.

Note: These fractions of an entry do not carry over to the next day.

What does this mean for the current points you earned?

As a thank you for all your past participation, during our transition to the new $25 daily Cash Giveaway we are offering the following BONUS:

As of September 1, 2009 all point accumulations will stop and Scour users will be awarded with extra daily search entries for the month of September 2009:

Users with:
1 – 1,500 points will receive 25 daily search entries for 30 days
1,501 – 3,000 points will receive 50 daily search entries for 30 days
3,001 – 4,500 points will receive 75 daily search entries for 30 days
4,501 – 6,000 points will receive 100 daily search entries for 30 days
6,001 – 7,500 points will receive 125 daily search entries for 30 days
7,500 + points will receive 150 daily search entries for 30 days
Note: The daily entry cap for the day is still 350.

August 31, 2009 will be the last day to redeem your points at the minimum 6,500 cashout level. As of September 1, 2009 the current point system will stop and you will have a chance at winning $25 every day, simply by searching, voting and commenting.

Winner Notification:

Daily cash giveaway winners will be notified via a Scour Inbox message. In order to assure prompt payment, please check your Scour Inbox regularly or make Scour your homepage so that you don’t miss out on free cash. The Scour Inbox email will only ask you for a PayPal address and will not ask you banking or other personal information. These messages will only be sent through our Scour Account. Those who do not respond within 30 days will lose their claim for the $25. So keep an eye on your inbox.

Keeping track of Scour Entry Points

Scour users will continue to view the number of entries that they have through a daily “sweepstakes entry counter” on the results page which will tell them the number of daily entries they have.

We’re excited about continuing to provide our users with superior search results with a little extra on top. :)

Thank you!

-Team Scour

Scour.com Gets a Shout-out from Guardian.co.uk

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With all of the latest news about MSN and Yahoo, its nice to know that people are still searching for alternative search engines. We recently uncovered an article where Charles Arthur gives Scour a shout-out as an alternative search engine.

Thanks Charles!
-Team Scour

Scour Integrates Realtime Search Results

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Scour.com now offers realtime search results! Now while you’re scouring the internet, you’ll be seeing results in real time – in addition to what Scour originally returned. This is a huge step forward for Scour, as we’re the world’s first collective search engine to combine realtime search with traditional web results.

Sounds interesting right? But, what is “realtime”, anyway?

Realtime results are what people are talking about RIGHT NOW on the web – like tweets, Digg posts, those YouTube videos that people are watching and sending to friends, and other actively viewed content on the internet.

One of the biggest issues with trying to see everything in realtime is the massive overload of content – there’s just SO much stuff. If you’re wondering what the capital of Greenland is, realtime search results probably won’t help you find that. But our traditional results probably will.

With Scour, you now get a mix of the stuff that is happening live, along with all that good traditional search stuff which we love and need.

We’d like to send out a big thanks to our friends at OneRiot for joining with us on this new adventure. Using their new API, we were able to integrate their feed, which collects some of the most viewed and discussed content available on the web.

If you are interested in learning more about realtime search, check out:

http://searchengineland.com/what-is-real-time-search-definitions-players-22172

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/10/crunchup-live-real-time-search-panel/

Thanks for Scouring,

Team Scour

Scour.com User Sighting!

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It looks like the Scour word is getting out to the streets. Not only are people “tweeting” about Scour but they are even promoting us around town!

Below you will see one of our Scour Fans, sporting one of the T-Shirts we gave away at the LA Twiistup Event a few months ago…

Thanks for spreading the good word!

-Team Scour

Scour.com is featured on Wired.com as “Cool Search Engine”

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Hey Scour Fans,

Wired.com recently published a story which gave tribute to “Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google” and of course Scour was mentioned :)

It is great to see that even with all the search engines out there, Scour.com is being recognized as an industry leader in social search.

A big thanks to the author, Ryan Singel over at Wired.com for writing this great article and for mentioning Scour along with all these other great search engines. It has been an excellent year for us and we are looking forward to our continued growth.

Also, as always, we are always looking to get feedback and suggestions on what you would like to see added/changed on Scour. You can also visit our feedback page to read what other users have suggested and cast your votes on the importance of each suggestion.

Thanks again!
-Team Scour

Scour Receives Positive Reviews from Users and Payments

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Hi Scour Fans,

Lately, we have been getting some great feedback from our Scour users through our feedback system and through individual blog posts and we thought we should publicize it…

First we would like to point out that we are seeing a lot more blog posts being posted about Scour and its visa gift card recipients. A big thanks to all those Scour users who have been blogging about us and letting the public know of when they get our gift cards by mail.

One of the most recent blog posts was by our Scour user PaidOpps. This user is  one of the many happy recipients of the Scour Visa Gift card. She has been a member for approximately 8 months and is getting paid for searching on the internet.

Since our original launch, we have given out thousands of dollars through visa gift cards for searching the internet through Scour. This is in addition to the $1,000 Scour giveaway which is currently active for users who are actively searching on Scour.

Secondly, we are seeing a great response to our new Scour Feedback system and we are excited to see how well all of our Scour users have adapted it. It has truly made the Scour community become more lively.

Our new feedback display allows users to post their comments and suggestions, while also allowing users to vote on what they feel are key important issues. This allows us to prioritize based on popular demand from our community.

A big thanks to all of our supporters and for those who have not tried us yet, just do a few searches and give us a try, after all its free to join and we pay you for searching the internet.

Thank you,

Team Scour

Scour Monthly May Giveaway Winner Receives $1,000

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Hi Scour Fans,

As many of you know, we are currently giving away $1,000 for searching on Scour.com and we must admit that it is going extremely well! For the month of May, our records show that our Scour members had 1,048,516 entries and one very happy winner.

Remember that everyone still has more chances to win the $1,000 Scour Giveaway. All you have to do is conduct your normal searches and Scour will award you with 1 Scour entry per search (Up to 50/day).

Also, remember that Scour members will also receive 1 entry per 4 searches conducted by their Scour Friends who join through the referral sign up process.

Congratulations to the winner and we look forward to seeing who wins the $1,000 for the month of June.

Thanks for Scouring!

Team Scour

Scour Awards 30 Free Points to all Members

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Dear Scour Members,

As most of you know, we won a CNET award for Search and Reference and we are extremely excited! As a way to say thank you, we have decided to award 30 FREE POINTS to all Scour members for helping us win the CNET award this year.

To redeem the points, simply log into your Scour account. The free 30  points have already been integrated into your point total.

Thank you all for your support, we greatly appreciate it.

Team Scour

Scour Wins 2009 CNET Webware 100 Award

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Hey Everyone!

Great News! CNET just announced that Scour.com is a winner of the 2009 Webware 100 Awards for “Search and Reference.” The Scour Team is extremely excited for winning and we would like to truly thank you for voting for us. It has been a great year for all of us and we look forward to providing an even better search experience for all of our users.

For those of you who are not familiar with the CNET Webware 100 Awards, they are known for recognizing the best  Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. To view the entire list of winners, visit: www.webware.com/100.

Stay tuned to find out WHEN SCOUR users will receive free points for showing us support :)

Thank you,

Team Scour

Scour Implements New Feedback Interface for Users

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Hey Everyone,

Since the launch of Scour, we have received a lot of helpful feedback, which is why we recently integrated UserVoice as part of our new feedback system.

The UserVoice platform allows all users to submit suggestions, vote on existing requests and submit comments. Best of all, the comments and votes can be seen by the entire Scour community.

We feel that the transparency and open communication that UserVoice has to offer is a key part in the development of the Scour community. We look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions.

-Team Scour