We know the holidays were a crazy time for many of our loyal followers, so we elected to extend the “Be A Star!” contest until midnight on February 15, 2009. That means you get one extra month to show off your amazing talents and create an entertaining video to tell the world what [...]

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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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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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Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to say “Thank You” to  David over at InternetNews for the coverage he provided on Scour’s newest updates.
InternetNews is a great site to keep readers in the know, be sure to visit their site and check out the Scour Review.
Thanks again David!
-The Scour Team

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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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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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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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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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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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