Did you hear about Scour? Scour is the next generation search engine with Yahoo/MSN/Google results and users comments all on one page. The best of all, you get paid for using it by earning points with every search you made. Also you get scores per comment and vote. The points are then converted to Visa gift cards. It is more or less like earning credit card or airline points just for searching. Cool, isn’t it?

How it Works?

The idea is based on a simple principle: “Search socially and get the most from your favorite search engine!”

• Hit the link below to join for free and we will both get points. You get 25% of the points your friends make. Please do not misunderstand, I will be rewarded with 25% of the points you will be earning. You will not lose 25% of your points. http://scour.com/invite/merkal2005
• After you join, start searching and you will get results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN on one page. This is really cool!
• You earn the following number of points for each action: 1=Search, 2=Vote, 3=Comment
• When you have earned enough points you can redeem them for Visa gift cards sent directly to you. Excellent, right?

I know you will like it. Join my search for blogging http://scour.com/invite/merkal2005

(I received a lot of comments saying Scour is SCAM. I will monitor them, and keep you updated!)

SearchMe is a different search engine. As you type in words to search, its engine auto completes some subjects you might be interested in. It is simple and brilliant!

You may find below some of the search results for some specific keywords:

• Marketing
• Mert Erkal
• SEO
• Twitter
• Bloghology

Conclusion:

I found SearchMe results very useful especially for bloggers. It can become a very good blogging tool if used regularly.

There are nearly infinite online discussions taking place in the Web. Do you have any idea how many of them are related to your blog’s topic? How can you identify the problems&questions which you already answered with your previous blog posts? Wouldn’t it be great replying those discussions by giving one of your previous post’s URL?

However, there are more than 100,000 boards and forums, how can you keep track of all?

Well, you are so lucky that some smart people thought about this before, and came up with a remarkable solution. Omgili monitors what people are saying online about anything. Just type the keyword (be as specific as possible to get better results), and click on search button. You are done! That’s it!

Omgili search engine scans millions of online discussions worldwide in over 100,000 boards and forums for you. It is able to differentiate between discussion entities, such as, title, topic, answer and post date. You can use Omgili to find consumer opinions, debates, discussions, personal experiences, answers and solutions. Excellent tool, isn’t it?

You don’t believe me? Why don’t you check these sample searches I did for you?

(Remember to click on Advanced Search to get the exact search results you are looking for, you can set the time period, sort by date, even specify the words in title, topic, or reply)

Keyword : SEO – selected Yesterday as period – Omgili Search Results

Keyword : RSS – selected last week as period – Omgili Search Results

Keyword : Pagerank – selected last week as period – Omgili Search Results

If you check online discussions with Omgili  everyday, and then write your posts to answer some of the most popular (or sometimes the least popular, depends on your blogging niche!) discussions, you will add more value to your readers. Even you will gain more exposure, and eventually increase the number of your readers.

I hope you find Omgili very valuable to your daily blogging. Now, I would like to check whether you know alternative ways to monitor online discussions. Please share them with me and my fellow readers. Thanks in advance!