Scour.com has launched its meta social search engine which encourages voting and commentary on search engine query results from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Scour fosters community- building and enables discovery through user feedback, friends and groups while giving users control of the search parameters needed for accurate results based on their preferences.
Scour differentiates itself from other social search, ratings and community sites in that it:
• lets users vote and comment on search results
• provides superior privacy control
• gives weight to preferred engines
• lets people redeem search points for VISA gift cards
Scour pulls search results from the top three search engines. From there it thrives on feedback to make the results ever more relevant. After enough votes on results, a search result can rise or fall in ranking which will make listings across all the engines more relevant on Scour.
Here’s a video demo of Scour.com:
Originally posted on July 14, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Scour is pretty good. I signed up and have been testing. However, I do notice that at times it doesn’t pull up results from all the search engines.
Me.dium just released a social search engine that is doing something similar. Instead of voting and writing comments on what a person thinks of a search result it provides the user with the most relevant results based on where people have been.
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.
Hey 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
My original cashout request was sent to Scour back in middle to late August. I still have not gotten paid yet. They sent out an update email early September saying process of payment verification takes 2-4 weeks. Based on that email in early September, my 4 weeks is coming up shortly and no response yet. Total time has been around 6 weeks since my original cash out request. My searches are all valid and I’m listed as #2 right now on top results.
I will keep you updated and hopefully will get paid or at least an email back on status of my cash out as I know they are busy.
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!