Sunday, July 13, 2008

Search Engine Wars - Money for the Masses?

I stumbled upon a new search engine recently. It is called Scour.com and it claims that it pays back to the user some of the "billions" of dollars made by search engines annually. I uses combined results from Google, MSN, and Yahoo, as well as user votes and rankings. Since I use Google for almost everything, I figured I'd give it a whirl. The best feature, in my mind, is that, at a glance, you can see where in the results the site ranks on Google, Yahoo, and MSN; it is pretty handy for figuring out which sites you want to visit. Anyway, here is their official mumbo-jumbo:
The top search engines make billions of dollars a year in advertising revenue, wouldn't it be cool if the users got a piece of that too? Enter Scour Points! Every member is awarded one point for every search, two for a vote and three for a comment with a maximum of 4 points a search. Once you aggregate at least 6,500 points you can cash them out for a $25 Visa gift card... it's more than you currently make from searching, right? On top of that, we offer referral points for the friends you introduce to Scour where you can earn 25% of the points they make. So if you invited 25 friends that used scour regularly in addition to yourself, that's an easy $125 in your pocket for a year of what you already do! Check out how much you could earn with the Scour Points Calculator. This isn't a pyramid scheme and we're not trying to get you rich quick, we just think it's a good idea to share our success with those who help make it possible.
Great eh? Well, if you're interested, check it out here: http://scour.com/invite/tysonsnow

2 comments:

jet said...

Hey, weren't you ABC tagged...

Tyson said...

Nope... Although I've seen the ABC tags on yours and Mel's blogs...