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Hey… I did recommend Blingo to you the other day. I like the idea, search for something and you have a random chance to win something. The other day they were giving a prize away every 5 minutes! Wow.

But … there’s always a but, isn’t there? When I made the suggestion that you use the site and sign up they were returning Google search results. Now, they have apparently switched to a combination (meta search engine) using Yahoo, MSN Live Search, and Ask. Needless to say, I’m not pleased. I’ve decided to return to doing the majority of my searches directly through Google. But, since I do like the idea of winning a car, I’m doing this:

My searches through Blingo are now more of the simple kind. When I know I want to go to yahoo, but don’t want to find the bookmark or type it in the address bar, I’ll search for Yahoo. I am 100% sure that I’ll find the results. My serious searching is going through Google. Still tho, you should sign up. Click this link and register. Just don’t do your searching exclusively through it. They don’t give you the good Google results anymore.

My $.02 on this one. I’ll keep an eye on it. But again, please, register, do a few seaches, I’d really like you to win the car or $500 or whatever. Would be nice!

Bux.to — maybe you’ve heard of it? Well, if you haven’t then you’ll like to hear this. Its a website (duh) where you login, and see a list of “ads”. You click them, wait for 30 seconds and they pay you $.01. Yeah, a whole lot, right? Well, after you’ve accumulated $10, you can have them send you a check. And now, they have this Mastercard where you can get your money out.

So, how does this all work? Well, Bux gets their money by selling ads. They pay you to look at them, for at least 30 seconds. If you are interested, you look further at the sites, if not, no skin off anyones teeth. You can click as many or as few of the ads as you’d like. Now, the kicker comes from getting people (friends/relatives/etc) to sign up under you. Once they do, everytime they log-in and click something, they get $.01, and you get $.01. Now that means that even if you haven’t logged in for the day, and 3-4 of your friends do and click 10 ads or so, your be making like $.40 a day! How long until you reach $10? And see some real cash?

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Hey, you know that whenever your on the Internet these days you are so overloaded with information that finding that one peice of whatever that your looking for is very important. That’s why I always use Google’s search engine. Well, not always — sometimes I use others when I can’t find what I’m looking for. But more often than not, I’m using Google.

So when someone came to me and wanted me to switch to Blingo (what’s that? I thought!) I was really really skeptical. In fact, I wanted to tell them where to go. Until I listened just a little longer….. (more…)