Do you ever thought to have your favorite search engines in the same platform? Well, yesterday I was invited to use Scour, a system which merge Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines, bringing you all of their power together into the same website. When you use Scour search engine, those three engines are searched all at once, and the results will be shown on the same page.
How It Works
The Scour member is able to vote each listing up or down, based on the relevance of the keywords used by you. Also, you are able to write comments reviewing the listed sites. By blending users’ feedback, the Scour Team improve the search algorithms, improving the search and giving relevant results for your keywords.
With the Scour voting and comment system, their goal is to introduce the human element of searching allowing you and all other Scour members to speak up and help shape the results with every search. So if you see a result that doesn’t match with your search, vote it down! And in the other case, if you see a site that is exactly what you wanted, vote it up and leave a comment expressing why you liked it. After enough votes, the listings will move down in rank, placing the relevant ones where they should be, at the top! When using Scour you can read user reviews about websites based on your keyword taking a lot of the guesswork out of searching and getting to you destination quicker.
The Motivation
Did you know that search engines make billions of dollars a year in advertising revenue? Would be great if the users could get a piece of that… Well, with Scour you can earn Points which you can change for Visa Gift Cards!
Every member is awarded one point for every search, two points for a vote and three points for a comment with a maximum of 4 points a search. Also, they offer referral points for the friends you introduce to Scour where you can earn 25% of the points they make.
What about the point conversions?
- With 6,500 Points you get a $25 Visa gift card.
- With 12,500 Points you get a $50 Visa gift card.
- With 25,000 Points you get a $100 Visa gift card.
It’s more than everybody currently make from searching, and if you invited 25 friends that used scour regularly in addition to yourself, that’s an easy $125 in your pocket for a year of what you already do! Also they have a calculator which you can check out how much you could earn.
It seems like merging social media with search engines it’s the new sensation on Internet, but will this work? If you can earn something for each search you make, why not? I mean, we have nothing to lose.
What are you waiting for? Join to Scour now and start earning points!
Hey! my name is Javier but you can call me Javo, everybody does.
Nice post MrJavo. I have signed up under your referal and will give it a try and see how it goes.
I have tested Scour and I really liked their idea. The interface is also cool. Bloggers can definitely try Scour.
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Thanks Mr Javo. I just signed up. An interesting find indeed.
If it weren’t for the FireFox plugin, I would have skipped this one. I’m true to my FF search bar.
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doesn’t hurt to try thanks for the find.
Has anyone gotten paid from this yet?
I don’t. I have like 1000 points…
I am using scour but the bad point is if you search the images the bad images always comes first.
Oh sorry I forgot to say” Thanks for the useful information.”
This is what I get for letting my email subscriptions pile up. I just signed up for this one. It shouldn’t take a lot of my time which is one thing I really like in a GPT program.
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I got paid by SCOUR today! They have been getting many request payments so they have been overloaded with requests but be patient it is a good site!
Really? Good to hear!