Scour.Net Website Provides Multimedia Search Engine

Posted on August 18, 1998

Scour, Inc., the Internet start-up founded by five UCLA computer science students, announced the availability of Scour.Net,a search engine and guide for finding audio, video and images on the Internet. The website lets users find pictures, movie scenes, music clips, concerts, sporting events and more.

Scour.Net's core service is a search engine that specializes in finding multimedia on the Internet. Unlike conventional search engines that index text found on webpages, Scour's search technology scans the Internet exclusively for audio, video and images. Scour.Net offers many enhancements over traditional search engines for finding multimedia including an image index featuring over one million thumbnails, the first ever of its kind.

"On the Internet today, over 800 radio stations broadcast live content, over 50 professional sports teams broadcast live games, record companies offer thousands of hours of music samples and movie companies offer video clips from their latest movie releases," said Dan Rodrigues, President and CEO of Scour. "This is truly exciting and compelling content. What Scour.Net offers is a precise way to find this content without browsing hundreds of web pages or thousands of search results."

Scour, Inc. is a privately held corporation based in Los Angeles, CA. Scour develops and markets Scour.Net, the first exclusive search engine and guide to multimedia on the Internet. Scour was founded in December 1997 by five UCLA computer science students with combined expertise in Internet searching, multimedia research, Internet privacy and protocols, and web development.

Note: Scout.net is no longer available.