Get Paid to Search with Scour

So how many times do you search the internet every day?  For many of us who work at home, that number may be pretty high.  Did you know that you can get paid for those searches?  With Scour you can earn up to 3 points per search for up to 100 searches per day.  You get 1 point for the search.  Then you can get 1 point to vote on the sites that come up, and 1 point if you make a comment.  However, you can’t just run down the list voting on all of them to grab up those points.  That’s why it is a maximum of 3 points per search.  It is also set up so that you don’t get additional points for a search that was already performed that day.  On top of your own searches, you can also get 25% of the points made by any friends you refer!

So, you are probably wondering how many of these points you have to get before you actually get any money.  You are not going to get rich using Scour.  If you have 6,500 points, you can cash out for a Visa gift card for $25.  12,500 points will get a Visa gift card in the amount of $50, and 25,000 points equal $100.

I actually signed up for Scour last month, but then didn’t really do a lot with it.  I was always forgetting to use it to do my searches.  However, they have a toolbar that you can easily add to Firefox or Internet Explorer so that you can perform your searches right at the top of the page.  I went back to it the other day and made it a point to do my searches using Scour so that I could see how many points I would get.  With just doing the regular searches that I would have been doing anyway, I received almost 200 points just in the past 2 1/2 days just from my searches.  (And that is only with searches and voting because I don’t make comments.)

Why use Scour other than for the points?  Scour combines search results from the top three search engines: Yahoo, Google and MSN.  Have you ever noticed how you can search for the same phrase in all three of those, and you don’t always come up with the same results?

So my initial review is that Scour is definitely a tool I will continue using.  It never hurts to have a little bit of extra money coming in.  I’ll try to remember to come back and update when I have reached enough points to cash out.

Try it out and see what you think.  Please leave me a comment and let me know.  No, it won’t make you rich, but when was the last time you received a gift card from Yahoo?