Scout (travel website)

Scout

Developer(s)	TeleNav
Initial release	September 2009 (2009-09)
Development status	Active
Platform	web application
Available in	English
Type	travel ticket search engine
Alexa rank	19,263,860 (April 2014)[1]
Website	www.scout.me

Scout (form. goby) is a travel website which launched in September 2009. The site searches selected databases and other sources of information on the web focused on 400 categories of things to do while traveling. Signed in users may also share their results utilizing the Facebook connect applications programming interface. The website services are free to users and the website is supported by an advertising business model and partner distribution model.

References

• "Get Active With Goby, The Activity Search Engine", Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2009, retrieved November 24, 2009 
• "Goby: A Search Engine to Cure Your Boredom", Mashable, November 12, 2009, retrieved November 24, 2009 
• "Goby Gets Local Search Right", Webmonkey, September 23, 2009, retrieved July 31, 2012