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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?"
All your fingers broken? Why not take 10 seconds and try it yourself, rather than relying on slashdot to do your thinking for you?
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
What is the quality of MSN's search engine like? Does it rival that of Google?
Would Microsoft need to waste 1 millon of dollars if the msn search engine was good?
If you have to pay users to use your product, then your prodcut is crap.
Yes, and if they can't buy what they want, they'll try other means to try to force people to use their products.
On the other hand, if you go to their promotional site and click the search button you can see if the box is present making you a possible winner. That's at least as much fun as watching badger badger badger for 4 hours.
Of course if I wanted to search for something I'd use google in another tab.
"Most major search engines offer a very clean interface these days as well, and MSN is no exception. However, MSN isn't advertising anywhere near as aggressively as Google is."
What???? Are you seriously comparing the home pages of MSN and Google and coming to the conclusion that both of them are clean?
Can I have some of what you are smoking?
evil is as evil does