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Microsoft Hopes Prizes Will Attract New Searchers
BertieBaggio writes "Remember the long-running e-mail hoax that had Bill Gates testing an "e-mail tracing program" and offering to pay recipients big bucks if they passed his test e-mail along to all their friends? Well, the offer is true, sort of. Microsoft wants you to use its search engine, and it's got $1 million worth of prizes up for grabs for those who nibble at the offer. Following Yahoo's recent consideration of offering prizes to searchers, is this another tactic to lure users away from Google with candy and other shiny things?"
It's so useful they have to pay you to use it.
No details on how this works but can turn loose a perl/lwp script and let it run all night and wake up a winner! Something tells me they have thought of this angle.
you have to bribe people to use it instead of the competition.
Google isn't the only search engine?!?!?
I find that although many people are liberal in beliefs, they are conservative in actions.
I did. All I had to do was send a check for $199.95 for shipping/handling and I got a free copy of Windows XP.
If you don't want crime to pay, let the government run it.
Maybe Microsoft should give away free downloads on iTunes. ;-)
If you don't want crime to pay, let the government run it.
But I didn't win :(
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