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Search Engines' Reward Programs
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Search engines are dangling rewards and cash prizes to attract customers to their sites, the Wall Street Journal reports. MSN is offering free nights at the Four Seasons and other goodies to people who search for one of roughly a thousand terms on a rotating list. Yahoo's GoodSearch donates a penny to charity for each search. And Blingo hawks giveaways including iPods. But, the WSJ reports, 'There are strings attached to some of the reward programs. Some require users to register personal information like a name or email.'"
Some require users to register personal information like a name or email.
Wait a second - you mean they want to be able to contact me if i win?
Honesty may be the best policy, but by process of elimination, dishonesty is the second best policy.
1000 terms, eh? I don't think any Slashdotters will ever win.
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You win a 4 night hotel for seaching on MSN. There you are, enjoying your fine stay, browsing the net with your laptop in your room...
Some guy steps in. You look at him. It reminds you of someone. In your astonishment, you remain quiet. He moves his eyes on to your laptop. His pupils dilate. He begins to speak:
"Just tell me it's not Google".
You nod, frightened as ever. At that point, he picks up a chair and throws it across the room hitting a table you don't care about cause it's the hotel's anyway.
"I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google".
My 0.02 cents