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Scour.com - Search Results with Social Input

September 6th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Alternative Search Engines

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AOS

Scour.com is a new take on the social search engine Genre. While most “social” search engines rely on group or growd input for finding results. However Scour uses major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, then allows it’s users to vote on results and provide comments as well.

On top of being a rather well thought out and useful search engine, Scour also “pays you to search”. Essentially, if you sign up for an account with them, you earn points for every time you search. These points are then redeamable by means of a Scour branded Visa gift card. This is an interesting concept, but one that’s been done before. However, Scour is a useful search engine by itself… so you might as well get paid while you do it. More »

Tags: Alternative Search Engines, crowdsourcing, Social Search

Similicio.us - Crowdsourcing Similar Sites

August 8th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Tools

URL:
http://www.similicio.us

Info:
Alexa | Whois

Submitted by:
AOS

Similicio.us is a very simple search engine, dedicated to a single task… Find similar sites. Basically, you provide similicio.us with a domain name, and it will return other sites similar in function or content. Now, at first glance this service is nothing new. After all, Google has been including their “similar pages” link in their search results for years. But - after I had a chance to use similicio.us - I found it returns some promising results…. sometimes unexpected, but promising none-the-less.

Before I talk about the functionality of the similicio.us, it’s important to mechanics behind the site. Similicio.us - as the name cleverly implies - uses Yahoo!’s del.icio.us social bookmarking service as it’s primary datasource. The site queries del.icio.us with the URL you’re looking for and returns entries with the same tags. This is a rather creative way to use crowdsourcing as a basis for a search engine. After all, this is what the concept of “tagging” was originally designed for. More »

Tags: crowdsourcing, similar, Tools

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