Scour better search and lets you make money?
The Internet still needs more search engines. As I’ve mentioned before. Yes, the big three have come out with various search APIs, it’s now kind of easy for others to build wrapper search engines on them.
It all depends how you market your search engine. The Internet advertising is kinda like endless market, which has more rooms for expansion. Scour is another search engine which is also a wrapper, and it’s built with its wrappers over the big three, which the searched results are aggregated from the big three (Google, Yahoo and MSN, just in case you ain’t know).
Furthermore search result allows members to comment. So you can judge on a search result more precisely from those comments. The Scour also offers a money making opportunity to the public who use the Scour search engine. Their money model is as follows:
* You get 1 point when you make a search on Scour,
* Every comment you write about the particular search result gives you 2 points,
* You can invite a friend to Scour, and earn points for these invites,
* 25% of points that are made by the people invited by you are also added to your account.
* Also the installation of Scour toolbar gives you points.
Once you’ve accumulated 6,500 points, you can then redeem for a 25$ Visa Gift Card. So it all depends how hard you work searching on Scour. If you could search Scour for 6,500 times a day, meaning that you’d get a $25 worth Visa Gift card everyday. Toolbars for IE and Firefox are available and they’ll have a version with widgets.
While searching it seems to work like AJAX manner, as what Ask Alexia search engine does having a spinner being loaded. But the returned search results are having the most, three pages only. And it seems to have loaded all these three pages at once. As navigating to the next page loads extremely fast! About AskAlexia, their homepage is a girly gadget blog, but today, I’ve spotted a search bar for pointing to the web, image, video, news, music and blog searches is available on the top of the homepage. Check it out at Ask Alexia
via [technospot]
Tags: search engine