Second place might not usually inspire “the happy dance”, but when you come in second to Google in Mashable’s “Blogger’s Choice” Open Web Awards you have every right to sing and dance through the streets. The Scour team is doing so right now after learning Scour.com was named runner up in this year’s Blogger’s Choice [...]

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Thanks Everybody!
We are now Open Web Award Finalists! a BIG thanks to everyone who helped us get here.
However, its not over yet, we still want to WIN THIS THING! We need your support once again so that we can take the title.  Please click here to cast your daily vote for Scour! (This is the [...]

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You know you can’t help yourself. An email, banner add, promotional pop-up - anything can spark your interest on Cyber-Monday when workers give up a little (or a lot, depending on who you talk to) bit of their productivity to shop the stellar online deals retailers offer.
Despite the economic troubles, reports show [...]

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Attention Scour Users!
We finally released our new Scour User Admin! We are very excited about our new interface and we hope that you will be too!
For a brief tour, take a look at our highlighted features below with screen-shots.  Be sure to experience it for yourself, log in here and snoop around! We really want [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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