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Blingo - Search & Win Fans

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Founded: Dec 13, 2005 9:07 PM
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Blingo



What is BLINGO?

Blingo is a front-end for the Google search engine that awards prizes to searchers at randomly chosen times. Blingo makes its money from advertisements powered by Google, which are displayed with each search. However, Blingo states that clicking on advertisements is not necessary to win, and clicking advertisements will not improve a user's chance of winning.

I've won $50 Amazon Gift Card. See the proof from Blingo itself.



How to Win?

Blingo chooses random times during each day to award prizes. If a user performs a search at one of those times, Blingo awards the user with a prize. Only the first 25 searches of the day per user count towards winning a prize. If two users search on the same second that a prize is given out, the user closest to the prize-winning second wins. Nonsense search terms and repeated searches for the same word are ineligible to win.

The Blingo website suggests in their advertising that the best way to win is not to try to win, but to use the search engine like you would any other search engine. They claim that most people win prizes after several months of use, seemingly out of the blue. [1] However, since the odds of winning are a matter of random chance, any ten searches valid in a row would have equal chances for winning, whether Blingo is used regularly after that point or not.

Once a person wins, a special "You Win!" page shows up and asks the user to input some personal information, for delivery purposes. At that point, if the winning user was referred to Blingo by a friend, the referrer will receive a message that he or she won the same prize. The winning user would have to be logged into the system to track this.



Who is Eligible?
Only residents of the US are eligible to win prizes, and US tax law requires that all prize winnings be reported to the IRS.



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