Scour Team Pic

scouradmin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:51:50 +0000

Scour Team Group shot!

Hey Everyone,

You ever have one of those days where you just the need to take a pre-planned group photo? Well we did! We thought today would be a good day to take a group shot of the scour team!

From the left we have Alina, Tami, David, Vanessa, Diana, Tony, Alina and Cynthia. In the back we have Simon, Alex and Bryan….what a good lookin’ bunch!

Not to worry though, shortly after the picture we got back to work on making Scour.com the best search engine ever.

-The Scour Team

Election 2008 Cram Session with Scour

scouradmin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:19:11 +0000

Have you done your election homework yet? With the voting polls opening in less than 24 hours, make sure you’re up on the candidates and issues. In preparation for some late night cramming, we searched “Campaign issues” on Scour and came across the CNN Election Center where you can learn about all the issues leading this year’s presidential election and what Americans are paying closest attention to.

Happy voting!

-The Scour Team

Faster than the speed of light

scouradmin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:09:32 +0000

Scour officially announced our latest and greatest updates yesterday. Catch all of the details on Search Engine Watch or InternetNews.com. What’s cool is that we actually polled our users and asked what new features or changes would improve the Scour experience. We improved search speed by 80% and now fare better in many tests than…ahem, well you can guess who. So we’re excited, yeah!

Please check out the new look and features and tell us what you think.

Thanks to Search Engine Watch and InternetNews for the write ups!

–The Scour team

Faster than the speed of light

scouradmin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:32:13 +0000

Please check out the new look and features and tell us what you think.

Thanks to Search Engine Watch and InternetNews for the write ups!

–The Scour team

The Building Blocks of a Social Search Engine

scouradmin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:27:08 +0000

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 the arena to voice their opinions on the search results they are receiving.

We recently spoke with Susanne Koch from Pandia Search Engine News about the thoughts that go in to running Scour. You can view the interview here.

Thanks to Susanne for taking the time to speak with us!

-The Scour Team

Putting the “Social” in Social Search

scouradmin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:41:28 +0000

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 a great piece on Scour and the value of human-powered search a few days ago. We’re glad to see they recognize that Scour is truly a social search engine relying on the Scour user community to make the results better. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Thanks to AltSearchEngines for the write-up!

-The Scour Team

Scouring the web: “Cool business cards”!

scouradmin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:41:30 +0000

Doing some research for business cards on Scour, we came across a great blog post on CreativeBits with some very creative business card designs.

They say the first impression is the most important one and we’re sure these make quite an impression! Our favorite is the Divorce lawyer, although it’s not the most positive of professions, we felt the creativity was executed masterfully!

Click here to check out the rest and make some Scour comments on the ones you like best!

-The Scour Team

Scouring for Info On 2008 Presidential Candidates?

scouradmin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:56:05 +0000

It seems you can’t turn on your radio or TV without being bombarded by news of the U.S. Presidential Candidates lately. Just within the last week alone, both Republican and Democratic candidates selected their choices of Vice Presidents which led to another wave of stories (some more scandalous than others). It does inspire one to do a bit of research though and find out what exactly is being said on our Presidential hopefuls.

So what details are you digging for? In the spirit of community and democracy, share what useful sites, stories, and factoids you’ve learned through your Scour searches on the comments section and our Facebook Wall. Did you find some funny pictures of one of the candidates? Some great comparisons of the two on key issues? Educate the Scour Community and earn some points in the process!

To get it started, we found a nice side by side roundup on McCain and Obama using Scour on The Washington Post website (gave it a big thumbs up rating) which includes news coverage, fundraising, and campaign schedules.

Improved Results for Scour Image Searches!

scouradmin — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:21:05 +0000

We have received a lot of great feedback and are excited to announce that we have improved our image search results. As of now we are using Flickr photos to populate our image search. We felt that this was a necessary change due to some of the short-comings of our previous filters. Scour wants to ensure that we are doing our best to make image searching a safe and fun tool for the whole family. The search is pretty basic now, but we want to know how your would like to improve it. Are there any new engines, features or additions you would like to see? Let us know!

-The Scour Team

A Scour, Cuil and Google Face-Off: How each stacks up with results

scouradmin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:30:40 +0000

One of our users alerted us to a test that TheSEOCyclone.com ran recently between Cuil, Google, and Scour to find out which search contender provided the most results. After plugging in the search query “How to use a tachograph,” the results filed in and Scour came out on top with more than both Cuil and Google. Check out the video:

Though not a common search phrase, this was a great example of what makes Scour so unique. Not only are results pulled from the three giant search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN), but the top results will be those that other users have found most relevant, as opposed to the most optimized by a set of SEO marketing experts.

This kind of social search is like a fine wine, it gets better with age. As feedback from users on a search term or phase grows, the less work a person will have to do in order to find what it is that they’re searching for. Everyone over time chips in to help you out!

A big thank you to TheSEOCyclone.com for keeping us in mind!

-The Scour Team