Saturday, February 11, 2006

Get Paid to Search -- Yahoo! Search Rewards

Yahoo! has sent a survey to randomly selected Yahoo!Mail users asking if they'd be interested in being rewarded for using Yahoo!Search as their primary search engine. It would involve downloading and installing a Yahoo!Toolbar for your browser, and they don't reward you with cash. But here are some of the rewards they're considering:

  • No Yahoo!Mail ads
  • Unlimited Yahoo!Mail storage
  • Outlook access to Yahoo!Mail
  • 5 free music downloads per month
  • Save $3/month on a Yahoo!Music subscription ($3.99 instead of $6.99)
  • Donation to charity
  • $5 PC-to-Phone calling credit (~30 min) for Yahoo!Messenger With Voice
  • Save $7/month on 3-DVD Netflix account ($10.99 instead of $17.99)
  • Save $5/month on Yahoo!Personals account ($19.95 instead of $24.95)
  • 250 frequent flier miles/month

Not great incentives, but I'd be willing to give it a try. The Outlook access to Yahoo!Mail could be useful, or maybe the 5 free music downloads. It wouldn't be worth it if I felt the search results weren't good enough, but as long as I find what I'm looking for, then it's all good. I hope they give this a try.