Scour Website Review
Does Scour, stand a chance in competing with other search engines? Perhaps, but only time will tell. In the meantime let's take a look at the design, and features of Scour. Aside from that, we'll discuss Scour's reward exciting reward program.
Design
Scour's main page keeps it simple, which many users will simply adore. In that regard they take a page from the Google handbook so to speak, but when it comes to searching the differences change completely as search results are displayed by MSN, Goggle, and Yahoo services.
Features
At first glance it can be hard to fathom why you've never heard of such a useful website. Scour gives users gift card rewards for searching, voting, and commenting on search results. This feature itself sounds too good to be true, and indeed it is sadly. The downside to the system is that points are capped, and the rules are very strict.
Those who go through with trying out the rewards scheme are required to wait anywhere from two to four weeks while Scour employee's check over that persons account to make sure everything is legal. Nevertheless, for those that don't mind the amount of waiting time and rules, could potentially find themselves with some extra money.
Commenting on search results is actually a very interesting feature that other search engines don't have. For example other users could be warned of risky images or viruses by the comments of other users.
Notes
Overall Scour is a great search engine with some interesting features. However its nothing compared to Google and other search engines, and would be absolutely nothing without them. Some advice to Scour would be to offer users ways to receive gift cards sooner, and to loosen up on the rules.
Final Score
3/5- Average. (5 Being Perfect, 1 Being Horrible.)
Published by Matt Remley
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4 Comments
Post a Commentlol, loosen up on the rules? Google is the tightest ship around and if anyone needs to loosen up on the rules I give my vote to them. Good read on the features and everything. I'm sure it's changed a tad since you wrote this as well. Good luck~
I can't wait to check it out!
sounds neat!
Sounds like it's a mix of your basic search engine, a dash of SpumbleUpon, and those gimmicky search and win sites like blingo.