Comments on: Elevator Pitch Saturday: Search Socially With Scour

By: nico

nico — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:23:32 +0000

testing cocomment

By: steve

steve — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:48:04 +0000

my work proxy blocks it flagging it as porn. lol.

By: Nickolay

Nickolay — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:48:13 +0000

I do not think that it is good idea. Time will show.

By: Matt Morris

Matt Morris — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:50:58 +0000

Totally. As soon as I read the headline I wondered if anyone had commented on that yet…

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:30:42 +0000

One thing is friggin annoying. Sometimes the search results I am not able to read as soon as the results are in a page covers it asking for my sign up info.

Dudes this is a huge turn off. Stop trying to grab user profile data and just provide a friggin service. You result pages is so cool, like a mix beteween a digg, Buzznews and regular search results.

By: Mathew Carpenter

Mathew Carpenter — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:29:18 +0000

Any idea how you pronounce the name?

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:27:21 +0000

“It basically uses the search engines’ api, some ajax, and fancy css to return the same results as the major search engines. This isn’t innovation, but decoration.”

If this is true then it should be easily duplicated.

It is very precise though. Got the most accurate results ever from their service and not a bunch of unrelated results.

By: Drew Houston

Drew Houston — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:28:57 +0000

definitely. and ratio ftp sites

By: bobby_d

bobby_d — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:23:37 +0000

The best advice I’ve heard this week was by someone who told me that the best choice I could make in life was to find a large ascending innovation wave, and follow it as a career path. Reviewing all these new websites, cements my belief that the innovation wave for web technology is in severe deline.

Seriously, this site is not innovative. It basically uses the search engines’ api, some ajax, and fancy css to return the same results as the major search engines. This isn’t innovation, but decoration. It doesn’t even a search algorithm.

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:31:55 +0000

I got a sign in form instead of search results for videos

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:27:07 +0000

21.66666667 days? Really? Wow!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:23:38 +0000

This guy is retarded. That is all.

By: MattFTW

MattFTW — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:53:45 +0000

I didn’t have to sign up for a video search… however, the results aren’t so great.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:34:41 +0000

Interesting. What a fantastic user interface. It’s rather pretty and well thought out. Well done.

If these guys built more onto this, such as have pagerank / rank in all engines, votes, etc. dictate the result set, it would really become something useful.

As someone else mentioned though – the user cast voting could be abused. I wonder how they will tackle this.

By: Habib

Habib — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:03:31 +0000

Why the limitation on search pages ? Scour only returns two pages of search results. Also isn’t against the search API’s to re-rank the results ? Anyone ?

By: preetam mukherjee

preetam mukherjee — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:47:53 +0000

hmm…i didnt notice that you’d have to sign up for video search.
and you’re right, that wouldn’t be cool, at all.

scour people..are you listening in?

By: John Spartan

John Spartan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:52:10 +0000

Search 2.0 ?

By: Daniel Kemp

Daniel Kemp — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:18:16 +0000

Ya it’s cool {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/aBBkepfiiz_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Ya it’s cool ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/nswsemQGw3″}}}

By: Anti Matter

Anti Matter — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:55:16 +0000

the search results are really cool. but I do not like the fact that if I want do a video search I have to sign up. Free or not that will be a feature that will turn 90% of their potential customers away.

I wonder how much money they spent to develop this product and service?

By: DefV

DefV — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:30:57 +0000

Its URL.com with a few extra features nobody will use.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:02:05 +0000

I’m with looser. Why exactly am I voting? Trying to pay people to do it is a bad idea. SEOs will figure out a way to game the system so the voting will lose relevance quickly. However, I do like the fact that scour gives me the rank of a result on all three major search engines. I just don’t think that is a big enough hook or competitive advantage to give this company traction. Meta search engines are an old concept. They need more.

By: Philip Kaplan

Philip Kaplan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:48:47 +0000

Anyone remember the original Scour? I think it was Scour.net and was a great music pirating service.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:41:40 +0000

domain name is great cuil should buy it from them

By: Ankit Rajvansh

Ankit Rajvansh — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:38:17 +0000

Hi, I am new here. Though this seems a nice experiment, but I am looking for a search engine which relies on existing diggs and delicious bookmarks. basically, something which combines pagerank and postrank. Is such a service already existing??

By: patent looser

patent looser — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:19:41 +0000

I’m lazy. When I search i want the results fast. And once I find the stuff I’ve been looking for I just go to that site and don’t bother “voting each listing up or down” nor “commenting on my experience”. What good is that for? Do you think anyone cares about my experience? They just want to get the stuff they’re looking for. And regardless whether I had a “good experience”, what ultimately is going to bring those people back is going to depend on THEIR experience with the site, not mine nor anyone else’s.