Microsoft Hopes Prizes Will Attract New Searchers

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 16, 2006 @02:05PM from the scratch-and-win dept.

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?"

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Have you heard about Microsoft's search engine? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-16 14:09 · Score: 5, Funny

It's so useful they have to pay you to use it.
Plato's Cave... by PipeIsArt · 2006-02-16 14:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Google isn't the only search engine?!?!?

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