A few days ago our friends over at TechCrunch were kind enough to include Scour’s “elevator pitch” in its weekly showcase of interesting startups. Our CEO, Dan Yomtobian (wearing a t-shirt that will give Ed Hardy a run for his money), gives a nice overview of Scour and how it works. TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters also [...]

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Our newest version of the Scour Search Results is now LIVE!
Here is a breakdown of what’s new:

1. Faster Search Results!….We’ve improved search speed by 80%! We recently clocked a search for “shoes” at .123 seconds! That’s even faster than Google at .16 seconds!

2. New Layout: We’ve removed the top sponsored results for most listings [...]

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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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It seems you can’t turn on your radio or TV without being bombarded by news of the U.S. Presidential Candidates lately. Just within the last week alone, both Republican and Democratic candidates selected their choices of Vice Presidents which led to another wave of stories (some more scandalous than others). It does inspire one to [...]

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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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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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We know you’ve all been wondering, and we’re excited to share the news that the very first payout of $25 was issued to… (drum roll please)… Peter Yu in British Columbia, Canada! Congratulations Peter!!
This Waterloo engineering student heard about Scour from a friend and decided to put our news social search to the test. After [...]

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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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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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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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