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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Re:What is the quality of MSN's search like? by diegocgteleline.es · 2006-02-16 14:30 · Score: 1, Troll

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.