Appropriately named Scour, allows you to search Google, Yahoo, and MSN all from the same page. Search all three of these engines at the same time and filter your search to include only images or videos. As if this in itself wasn’t enough, the engine also incorporates elements of social search to the user experience by allowing voting and commenting on any given search result. Basically, users can vote for the best result and soon will be able to add comments as well. Depending on the number of votes that a given result receives, it moves higher or lower down the page. As a final addition, and a way of encouraging growth, Scour offer users Visa Rewards points for searching, commenting, voting, and for inviting friends to the site.
“Scour's purpose is to bridge the gap between searchers and relevant results. By providing a platform for the user to vote and comment on relevancy, searchers connect with one another creating a true social search community, attained through innovative solutions to meet the needs of today's web searchers.”
Social search engines are an intriguing concept and they just simply make sense. Scour could become really popular simply because of the fact that it aggregates the three biggest engines into one, but also because the voting and commenting could take on a life of its own.
The only thing that doesn’t really seem to fit in Scour’s proposal is the addition of the Visa Rewards. Could this be confusing things too much and taking away from the fact that the engine itself can stand alone without having to bribe people to use it?
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http://www.scour.com
