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Yes it does need to be filled, for the journalist and tech writes who scour hacker news for their latest blog posts.

But that pattern of scouring will point towards the factors which do move the mass of consumers some time later.

"I am a member of 23 and me and they scour scientific research papers to assign medical conditions to certain genomes.

So I should have to scour FAQ pages and TOSs in order to disambiguate that this is an opt-out-only membership-type club with recurring charges?

They don't have hours to scour the internet looking for alternatives, nor do they probably want to have to manage listings at many difference sites.

I have dreamed of a script that would scour eBay and amazon finding products available via "buy now" that we're being resold on amazon for some configurable profit.

And even if I can find an article or two online, there is a massive amount of valuable contextual information that's usually missing, unless I scour the web for obscure blogs.

An advanced adversary will scour RFPs, public records and >>job postings to learn what protection technologies a company has and attempt to duplicate their environment for testing.

I'm not a record-collector myself, but I'm guessing that there's a fair amount of them who are used to "digging" to find gems, as opposed to checking out ads/events on Facebook...antique collectors regularly scour the old-fashioned newspaper ads for garage sales because they know the type of old-fashioned people who might have undiscovered antiques are also the type to advertise in newspapers.