I recently talked about how I had won cash money with Blingo. One of my buddies took me up on the offer to become a Blingo friend at that point and he wrote me today telling me how he had won a movie ticket meaning that I also won one. Yeehaw, win-win!
Then I went to perform a search via Blingo in my Firefox search box as I do a hundred times a day. But it looked a bit different this time.
Wherefore art thou, Google?
Part of the appeal of Blingo has always been that you get pretty much the same results that you’d have gotten had you went to Google… with the additional possibility of winning fat loot. Now you get some kind of bastardized, multiplexed result list from Microsoft’s Live Search, Yahoo search and Ask.com. Sorry, Blingo, I need relevant search results more than I need fat loot and Google has the upper hand in that department.
Switch back, Blingo, it’s not too late.
Exit Stage Left Says:March 27th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I’m still reeling from this change on Blingo. It hurts me so, it does. All Yahoo seems to give me at the top of its results is a bunch of online retailers where I can purchase whatever it is that I’m searching. I guess I can use Blingo whenever I need to purchase something online now and Google for anything important.
Urchin Says:March 27th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Blingo has been the only place I go for searches for over a year now. I have won 6 prizes in that time (all movie tickets/$5) but this switch is not acceptable since the new results are nearly unusable.
I have seen other people mention a similar site called Winzy so I checked it out and it is a lot better than what Blingo has turned in to. I don’t know how good it is in the long run but it is worth checking out.
Uxorious Says:March 27th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Funny … search for “Blingo switch to Yahoo” in Blingo and you get nothing useful. Do it with Google, and this page is link #3.
ColdForged Says:March 28th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Priceless!
pogue Says:March 28th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
You would think Publisher’s Clearing House could afford to pay the licensing fees to Google to republish their search results, giving out the millions of dollars that they do. OTOH, maybe Google just got tired of people jumping ship to Blingo and decided to pull the plug on them. Either way, it sucks all around.
Michelle Says:April 12th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Search results seem better at www.iRazoo.com and I like their prizes better anyways.