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› February 3, 2006
Eat this viral spammy goodness
So you know what would be a good idea? How about we take an existing service, like say.. Google web search, and re-skin it in a clean simple way, get a little text-advert revenue coming in, then use that revenue to award prizes for people who use the service? Blingo!
Sorry I can't resist the prizes, and hey, it worked for Greg. Also worth noting - if you use Google for web search anyway, you're not loosing anything, they haven't junked it up and if you use their toolbar, or set your home page to it, then there's really no harm in trying. So go ahead and try to win your PSP, ipod, movie tickets, or cash value search google through Blingo.
Comments
1. February 3, 2006 08:01 PM
2. February 4, 2006 10:21 AM
Jake Posted…
I have been using Blingo like crazy for a while now. Have won TONS of prizes, including a PSP. I use FF as my browser, and I have the Blingo and Google search engines added to the chrome. When I want image search or group search, i simply switch the search engine and resubmit the search.Come on though - winning prizes for a tiny bit of inconvience... it's worth it.
3. February 4, 2006 10:30 AM
Nate Posted…
Thats what I'm saying! It smells like a scheme, but who cares if in the end you get an ipod for using google?
4. February 4, 2006 11:18 PM
jcartledge Posted…
You might see fit to point out that this is only available to people who live in the United States. Not all of us are so fortunate.
5. February 5, 2006 03:03 AM
Nate Posted…
My apologies jcartledge, I failed to take this into consideration and didn't check to see that Blingo has this limitation.
In other news, Safari users can re-wire the safari search box to use Blingo with Pozytron's acidsearch (which seems interesting in it's own right). This tip comes from flickr, where some people have been posting proof of their loot under the tag: blingo.
6. February 6, 2006 11:26 AM
J. J. Posted…
Hehe, nice Flickr tag. Indeed, I've won two free movie tickets since October . Like Jake, I use the Blingo Firefox search engine and then just use the Google Toolbar if I need an image, news, Froogle, or special Google search.
7. April 16, 2006 03:19 PM
Brian Posted…
Blingo is very fun....I just joined SearchChips as well. Sign up with me if you can: http://www.SearchChips.com/sign_up/?REF=ed30db385e7e9692baafdb93db43f599 Thanks! Brian
Josh B. Posted…
I used Blingo for about 2 weeks, but I get very frustrated that I couldn't jump into results for groups/images/local/etc. like I could with google. So I gave it up. Even though my dad has won twice already in the last 6 months