Getting Paid to search?

When you are on the internet, there is no way you do without a web search. Most of us rarely type in the address we surf to and we many a times do not even recall the address. Googling the web has become a catch phrase. Recently I asked a friend to send me a link of a particular page he referenced me, he asked me to google a word and click the third search result – I was clearly dumbfounded. This is a reflection of the way people have become dependedent to search engines that to even relocate a page, they need its help.

Getting Paid for what one always does

I cannot envisage the amount of money these search engines generate on each search we make. They can always be a little generous in giving us some portion of it. There have been a few websites who have started paying peope for using the search. I first came across SCOUR, but it put me off after looking at the layout of its search and the way it put three search results for each from three search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN). The money it generated per search was so minuscle it would take me decades to earn some money. I could not be so patient. A trial of a day or two and I stopped it.

Then someone mentioned me of this HomePage Friends. It is a little known site and does not even feature in search results. Not many people have used it. And it pays you more for every search you make and that too in British pounds. There are some bugs though – They sometimes cancel out your search results if they suspect you are simply making searches and not following natural way of making searches. So you cannot play around. You just have to search web they way you naturally search and cannot fool them.

The other thing I did not like, they force you to use Yahoo. Whatever you search will lead you to a Yahoo search list. Its not a problems for those who are used to Yahoo but I was always with google.

Its been few months I have used it and made 870 searches, so far earning me 7 BPD. They will transfer money into your paypal or bank account after you have summued your earnings to 20 Pounds. There are people who complained about receiving money late. But in the end they did get credited the amount they earned. Whats the harm in trying it out.

~ by Dr.Zhivago on October 11, 2008.