Wow, check this out: http://news.com.com/2061-10811_3-6037090.html?tag=nl And here is the article excerpt: Personally, I'd never think the competition would reach that point
Read the article. I did not want to repost it verbatim. It lists 10 possible rewards involved. I did not pay much attention to them since they are not luring me in with any reward
Kinda reminds me of those sweepstakes in the mail: You could get: 1- a new car 2- a new boat 3- a new house 3- a $10 gift certificate Gee. Which am I gonna win?
Sounds like instead of improving their search engine, they will now concentrate on increasing the user count by paying them.
Why waste money making a better search engine when they can buy people out? Just look how well A9.com is doing for amazon...
Speed and relevance are the best incentives imo. I suggested a cooperative search engine a while back where users get paid for searches.
What a rediculous scheme. Don't pay me money or rewards - use the money you're making from searches to improve your search, branding or marketshare. It's a novel scheme but that's all it is. Bill Gates had a pop at Google for not 'giving back' the money they're making off our searches at Google. Guess what Bill? Nobody wants it back because Google do a good job and I don't mind a bollock if they use the money they make off me to do this. Take a slice for themselves and use the rest to improve and develop more services. I'd much rather they did this then hand me any money or 'rewards'. MSN and Yahoo! are now a bunch of pathetic desperado's and it's silly schemes and suggestions of ones like this that make me laugh at them and make them look like companies who've given up. Sure, I'd use Yahoo! completely if they paid me £100/month. I have a price like most people but really.. this isn't going to happen, so they can go back to the drawing board on that one. The reward for using Google instead of Yahoo! for searching is more then Yahoo! or Bill Gates could ever offer. What a bunch of muppets. Pete