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A little over 2 months ago I signed up for the Blingo search engine which is basically just Google plus Prizes. It gives you all the same search results as Google would, with perhaps a bit more busy interface, but hey you can win prizes

What they do is they pre-pick several times during the day where they’ll give away a prize to the person who searches closest to that time, and if you’re that person then you get a little notification that you won a prize. They only accept your first 10 searches every day, so sitting there searching over and over for “purple monkey dishwasher” doesn’t help your cause any, really. But a lot of us (myself included) typically search at least a half-dozen times a day, and now I find myself sometimes using Blingo instead of just hopping over to wikipedia like I might normally do, just to increase my chances. Inevitably, wikipedia is the first link returned anyway, but no harm done really.

If you want, please use my referral link to sign up, because that way when you win, I win prizes as well. Since I just won a $10 iTunes gift certificate, so did Jeff Croft, who first informed me about Blingo in one of his blog posts a while back. That, of course, means that any of your friends that you invite will win stuff for you as well.

It’s not for everyone, but for those who search enough to potentially make it worthwhile, give it a shot.