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“And the first Scour payout goes to…”

August 5th, 2008 · 45 Comments · Uncategorized

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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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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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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scour how-to!

July 10th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

Check out our handy post on how to use Scour!
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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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Welcome to Scour!

June 25th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized

We’re a brand new social search engine and we can’t wait to get to know you! On this blog you’ll find news about new features, great info about the site, frequently asked questions and links to press we’ve received. We are also hoping you’ll leave your comments here about how to make Scour better… for [...]

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