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In the Engine Settings area it is possible to set the number of results returned from each search engine.
Today the maximum is:
8 for Google
100 for Yahoo
50 for MSN

I think that 8 for Google is too poor to have a nice search.
If this setting will be improved the quality and the number of page returned by the scour search engine will be improved with better result I think.

Why don't we have the $25 daily prize spread out to more users? We could have it like this:

$5 for one users
$3 for four users
$2 for four users

And of course, a user can only earn one prize at a time (If someone wins $5, they cannot win another $4 or $2 prize).

Also, we could keep point accumulations, so the active searchers have more chances to win. And the rewards for more points could be as follows:

1 - 3,000 points will receive 25 daily search entries for 30 days
3,001 - 6,000 points will receive 50 daily search entries for 30 days
6,001-9,000 points will receive 75 daily search entries for 30 days
9,001 – 12,000 points will receive 100 daily search entries for 30 days
12,001 - 19,999 points will receive 125 daily search entries for 30 days
20,000+ points will receive 150 daily search entries for 30 days

What does everyone else, and especially, admin think? :-)

Basically this would allow the user to prioritize say "software" as a heavy keyword and "computer" as a medium weight keyword so when searching for "computer+software" more results for the search string "software" will be shown than results for just "computer" this filters out unwanted results.

Also allow the user to prioritize ranking from google as opposed to say msn
e.g where "mysite.com" is 1st in google for "keyword" but 24th yahoo and 17th in msn the user has prioritized "google" as to display results more heavily therefore if google was set to heavy, msn to medium and yahoo to low, the site "mysite.com" would show up 3rd or 4th in the search for "keyword" on scour as opposed to 12th or 13th

Different options making Scour a greener search engine, which will attract "green users" ;) :
- a theme like "Blackle.com" to save energy ;
- less money to user, which will be invested by Scour in new energies, forests'protection...
- a counter on homepage to know what have been done : energy saved, trees planted...

Even if a search brings only 0,000001$, that's not nothing. All together this could be huge !
Sorry for my bad english... Scour team can rewrite my description ;)
Save the planet !