Search with MSN and win

Microsoft decided to take a different approach at gathering cutomers, like Kid states in this article.

 

So everybody spends a while doing searches to see if they win and MS gets a few more hits but nobody clicks on the adverts.
This is not a good idea.

 

Nice idea

 

I don't think it will work.

It may be simple, but after trying three times and not winning, which I was by the way totally expecting, I give up.

I think millions out there would do the same. Only Nintendo would just keep trying.

Skinny

 

i won! i got a set of hoyts tickets!

 

Here's the trigger words lifted from the source code of http://www.msnsearchandwin.com

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LOL ... Mcfox spammer

 

They're the example searches.

Competition is only open to USA residents, so I won't be searching using MSN..

 

Nah.

If you use those terms in msn search, the 'Have you won' link almost always appears, 3rd from top.

 

Man, results if you won or not are running slloooowwww. People must be hammering them with all kinds of bots.

 

MSN probably believes that if they can persuade people to search once they will search using MSN forever which in many cases I think is true.


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