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Scour - The Social Search Engine that Pays You to Search
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Social search engines haven’t really established its niche in the search engine market. And there are varied reasons for that. For one, social search engines are not really native search engine per se, because most of them just aggregates the search results of the three major search engines, repackaged these results and present it to users. New social search engine Scour does the same thing. As a social search engine, you can aggregate your search results or break it down per search engine. But what makes Scour special from other social search engine is the fact that it pays you to do your search.
Previously known as Aftervote.com, Scour has evolved itself from a search engine with an AJAX backbone with a mission to deliver the most relevant results as efficiently as possible, to a new social search engine with an expanded mission of bridging the gap between searchers and relevant results by providing a platform for users to vote and comment on search relevancy. And as a social search engine, Scour lets its users connect with another to create a true social search community.
In order to make its search results as relevant as possible, Scour pulls all the relevant results from the three major search engines and let members to vote for these search results to determine their ranking in Scour’s search algorithms. The more votes a search results get relevant to a particular search term, the higher its ranking becomes for that particular search term.
Now, here’s the fun part. Scour also promises to pay you, everytime you use its search engine. One point is awarded to your every search you make. 2 points for every vote you make, and 3 points for every comment you make. When you’ve accumulated enough points, you can convert them into a $25 Visa gift card.
Scour, doesn’t promise to make you filthy rich by using its search engine. Its rewards system may not be that attractive but still is a good way to earn some extra dough. After all, search is a part of our life, why not make it part of our income-generating activities as well, right?
Chris Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 8:27 pmMe.dium recently released a social search engine that is doing things slightly different. Instead of getting mainstream results from three major search engines and then organizing them from there, Me.dium is using past searches and internet usage to supply users with the most relevant results from square one.
Me.dium’s Social Search, which leverages the Yahoo! Search BOSS platform, provides an entirely new level of information on top of traditional search. Me.dium’s Social Search harnesses the activity of the crowds to let you find information that has relevance based on what people are actually surfing right now.
Me.dium’s technology lets the inherent activity of real people - not robotic crawlers - determine relevance. Me.dium’s Social Search results show what people are surfing and find interesting, right now. While other search engines base relevance on how content links across pages, Me.dium’s Social Search shows you the most popular news, reviews, pictures and videos that other people are actually looking at in relation to your search term. And as the activity of the people online changes, so do the search results.
Alex Says:
August 5th, 2008 at 5:34 pmHey Everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that we’ve made our first payout to a Scour user. Hit the link below to read the full story!
http://blog.scour.com/2008/08/05/and-the-first-scour-payout-goes-to/
Alex
Search Socially!
Scour.com
Me.dium Says:
August 13th, 2008 at 2:53 pmJust to clarify because some people have been confused, our search engine produces results on where people are surfing the Internet at the current time. It provides relevancy that most search engines cannot provide.