Scour is delivering search results that are nothing but combination of major search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. In addition, you can give thumbs up and comment on any search results. This makes it kind of a social search engine network.Though I had these thoughts that this might be a scam, it does not seem to be. I thought to give a try to Scour search engine. Why should you think positively to sign-up with Scour -1. We don’t have anything to lose. We are just using scour to search but getting the results from our favorite search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN and fun commenting and recommending the search results.
2. We can research on how commenting and giving thumbs up contribute to certain results with Scour’s algorithm.
3. It has a great affiliate program that gives you 25% of what points your referrals earn, so you need not to do all the work.
4. We would get something to give away free to our readers - that would be the visa gift card that we might get from Scour. Scour will pay you $25 Visa credit card as gift if you accumulate 6500 points, $50 for 12500 and $100 for 25000 points.
Scour does not pay in cash, check or via paypal. Scour pays with Visa Gift cards. Visa gift cards are pretty much gift cards that can be used at any store, so it is pretty much just as good as cash. Scour pays you for searching, voting and commenting (Well get to voting and commenting in a sec). For doing any of those three things you are awarded points.
You will earn 1 point for every search you complete. You will earn two points for every search result you vote on. Lastly you can earn 3 points for every search result you comment on. But you are limited to 4 points each search, so you can not do one search and vote on every result to gain points super fast. This also cuts down from people just voting to vote and will hopefully help get constructive votes.
1 comment:
Nisarg,
I keep going back and forth on the issue of whether or not Scour's model of paying for users makes sense. At the end of the day, search is good if it returns relevant results for my query. So I can't help but get a weird, negative feeling inside when I think of them paying people to use the engine. Of course, there's the separate issue of automated crawlers being used to get the search numbers by those who'd simply be looking for a quick payout.
I can understand them doing this to introduce people to the engine. But on some level, I'd prefer the product to stand on it's own and draw users in a viral manner simply because it is better than an alternative. I'm still on the fence.
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