Microsoft still paying people to search

Posted by alexk on Thursday October 02, 2008 @08:35AM
from the news.cnet.com dept.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10053855-75.html

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Re:Microsoft still paying people to search by redorb on Thursday October 02, 2008 @12:09PM (#321825)

Just for note google used to pay 1-3 cents per a search sent its way from any site (I used a homestead page) to get me $300-500 checks /mo during highschool.

(from the new 2001 index) http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=google+a...

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Re:Microsoft still paying people to search by mnemonik on Thursday October 02, 2008 @04:25PM (#322110)

No chance that google is still paying is there?

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Re:Microsoft still paying people to search by denglish on Thursday October 02, 2008 @10:12AM (#321717)

Surely paying your users isn't the answer - for starters it's almost an admission it doens't stack up to the competition on it's own! It's also only going to insentivise a small group of users that are very likely to dump the product as soon as the payments stop. They've got to stop looking for gimicks and compete on product.

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