How to Win Cash and Prizes by Searching with Google (With No Funny Business)

Blingo

This has been around for awhile now, but I figured it was worth mentioning in case anybody out there hadn’t heard of it yet. Blingo.com is a site put up by the Publishers Clearing House (the folks that deliver the huge checks to the homes of unsuspecting consumers) where you search for stuff, just like Google. In fact, they forward all of your search requests to Google and just display the results. The only difference is, you can win stuff (some of it pretty valuable). Cash, gift certificates to the likes of Amazon and iTunes are among the offerings.

It’d be remiss of me to not mention one of the coolest aspects of this site : the ‘friends’ feature. It works something like this:

  • You sign up with blingo
  • You invite a friend who also signs up
  • Your friend wins something
  • You win exactly the same thing (even if it’s $5000).

Now, the gold only travels up one “level”. In other words, it doesn’t work like a pyramid, you only win the stuff your friends win, not their friends, etc.

So, why not sign up with Blingo? There’s a Firefox plugin, or you can even set it as your home page (like I have). More info on that here.

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January 29, 2007 | Filed Under Cool, Technology 

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One Response to “How to Win Cash and Prizes by Searching with Google (With No Funny Business)”

  1. Clarrie on January 30th, 2007

    aww, it won’t let me play cos I’m not American. Boo.

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