Blingo

[Adam Richards]

I believe that their service violates Google's Terms of Service:

Originally Posted by Google TOS

Personal and legitimate uses only

The Google Web APIs service is made available to you for your personal, non-commercial use only (at home or at work). You may only create a single account and must provide accurate identification, contact, and other information required as part of the registration process. You may not create any script or other automated tool that attempts to create multiple Google Web APIs accounts. And you may not use the search results provided by the Google Web APIs service with an existing product or service that competes with products or services offered by Google.

Wouldn't offering prizes to search through your website be competing with Google, who offer no prizes to search?

[Leo 1529]

Originally Posted by Adam Richards

I believe that their service violates Google's Terms of Service. Wouldn't offering prizes to search through your website be competing with Google, who offer no prizes to search?

your right it would violate the tos... but who would actually use this

[coastertux]

I see your point about the TOS...I don't know...maybe they made a deal with Google? Even if they didn't, Google is probably very well aware of what they are doing. Anyways, if you use Firefox, you don't have to worry about viruses and spyware.

Again, if the mods see fit, please delete this thread. I don't want to get introuble with the mods.

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by coastertux

I see your point about the TOS...I don't know...maybe they made a deal with Google? Even if they didn't, Google is probably very well aware of what they are doing. Anyways, if you use Firefox, you don't have to worry about viruses and spyware.

Again, if the mods see fit, please delete this thread. I don't want to get introuble with the mods.

Even if they say fire fox doesnt allow it, you never know what people are coming up with. I read in a magazine in my network class that Firex Fox has 28 holes and 3 unpatched. While Opera has 8 holes and 2 unpatched, while IE has 83 holes and 25 unpatched.

So you never know how truly secure you are

[Leo 1529]

Originally Posted by Fruity Pebbles

Even if they say fire fox doesnt allow it, you never know what people are coming up with. I read in a magazine in my network class that Firex Fox has 28 holes and 3 unpatched. While Opera has 8 holes and 2 unpatched, while IE has 83 holes and 25 unpatched.

So you never know how truly secure you are

I only Use FIREFOX and i know that you can get viruse and spyware through it i got 3 viruses in the same week while on firefox... its always possible to contract something that installs invisibly to you...

[Wirelesstaco]

Hate to bring up an old topic but just wanted to say I Just won and this is a legit site.

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Wirelesstaco

Hate to bring up an old topic but just wanted to say I Just won and this is a legit site.

WOW thread revival!

Does this still exist?

Jacob

[John Gutmann]

As a comment on all posts on the TOS. The site is run by publisher's clearing house and it explicitly says "Powered by Google"

@jacob...Wouldn't it have taken less time to type "blingo" into google then to make your post? still loading 2 pages but less typing. :-P

-John

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by Wirelesstaco

Hate to bring up an old topic but just wanted to say I Just won and this is a legit site.

What did you get?

[Wirelesstaco]

I one a movie ticked. WOOT! Basically i got till the end of the year to get a Fandango movie ticket by entering in a code or something. Yea the site still works but I don't know about the referral link. Heres mine http://www.blingo.com/friends?ref=yi...Bzbu_87uVYM1eo
But basically if you sign up under me and you win I get the same prize you win.

P.S. I found out about this site from a link in someone Sig named sam on this forum. I want to contact the person because i think they only got a month to claim their prize.(Since I won they win too)