Money Da Easy Way

As of September 1, 2009 Scour no longer includes the search community in its 'profit sharing' or to be exact its ad-revenue sharing incentive program. Sadly, the owners of Scour state that due to 'overwhelming' user feedback they have decided to focus on improving the site and eliminating all forms of rewards.

This is akin to the legendary 'bait and switch' tactic of hustlers: present a great opportunity to the public, one that looks like a win/win and once you gain support and trust (I used and promoted Scour for more than a year!) discontinue/quit the portion of the opportunity that benefited the public!

Yes there is a global economic downturn and yes most, if not all, businesses are looking for ways to cut costs. However, the online advertising income has steadily INCREASED along with search engine income consistently for the past 3 years! (See article "Monetized Yet? What Are You Waiting For?") There isn't any real reason to cut the public out of the ad-revenue sharing aspect of Scour other than the usual: the owners want all of the profit for themselves while the public (users) MAKE/GENERATE all of the advertising money FOR the search engine! As recent as July 31, 2009 Scour announced how tremendous growth had been made due to the efforts of the user community! (See article "Scour Is Upgrading Its Reward System")

In response to the Scour decision to eliminate the feature that drew the majority of it's users to the site I posted this statement in their comment section:

"While improving the search capabilities via adding the Twitter & Digg (social networking, etc) components does boost the reasons for using Scour there is actually NO reason to discontinue the ad-revenue sharing aspect provided by the ‘points/rewards’ system. Ad-revenue sharing is more than an incentive for using Scour — its a mutual commitment to enhance all parties financially as the Scour search engine grows. Your decision has less to do with focusing on making Scour better than it does with keeping all the financial gains for Scour itself while leaving the community out of the $$ loop. Keep it real."

So. . . if your 'searching for dollars' by using ad-revenue sharing search engines, don't use Scour because you won't get paid!

Let's Get PAID,
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PS As of September 13, 2009 Winzy is still VERY active as an ad-revenue sharing search engine site! You can click here to join Winzy for a chance to win $500, gift cards and other prizes by accruing points when searching.