Scour is dedicated to providing its users with the best search experience possible. Now, Scour.com is going realtime… users can rock up to Scour.com, search one box and it “scours” traditional search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live) + realtime search powered by OneRiot at the same time to find the answer!

As realtime search continues to heat up, users are left w/ the dilemma of when to search traditional search over realtime search to find the best information online, right now for any topic- now the results are meshed together on one page! Check out this search for ‘Obama’ as an example: http://scour.com/search/web/obama

On the search results page, you can see Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live give you Obama’s official website, his Wikipedia page and the White House site as you would expect from traditional search engines. Meanwhile, the top OneRiot realtime result is about Obama’s new health plan and the democrats’ reaction today.

This is a great implementation of the recently released OneRiot API and is a clear demonstration of realtime search vs. traditional search – i.e. “what’s going on right now?” (realtime) and “what’s a dependable reference page?” (traditional). Scour also allows users to influence the ranking algorithm by voting and commenting which helps deliver an interactive search experience- not just blue links.