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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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New Features Live in Scour Results!

October 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized, updates

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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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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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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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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