Scour: Social Search Engine Rewards User With It’s First Payout

scour_logoScour a recently launched social search engine which rewards users for searching, voting or commenting upon search results has just made it’s first reward payment to a member of the site Peter Yu of British Columbia, Canada.

Scour which launched into public beta at the beginning of July is a search engine service with a twist, when users search Scour it collates results from Google, Yahoo and MSN simultaneously. Members of Scour can vote, comment upon individual results for which they receive points, and on Scour points make $$$’s once you have collected up enough of them.

Scour has just announced it has payed out it’s first reward payment to one of their users Peter Yu of British Columbia, Canada who received $25.

You can read more about Peter and his Scour payout at the Scour Blog.

Google experiment to search your friends’ Twitter, Facebook and other postings

Google launched a new product Monday that will allow users to find recently updated public online postings by a person’s network of friends, colleagues or media sources.

The goal of “Social Search,” available Monday afternoon at www.google.com/experimental, is to find relevant postings on Twitter, in blogs or other public Web content published by a user’s circle of online colleagues.

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