08 Oct 07 Make money while you search
Google doesn’t pay you to search does it? What about Yahoo? or Live? None of these pay you to search using their search engines. Yet, we still use them because they give good results and usually they are very fast. However, there are a large number of search engines cropping up all over the WWW, which are different in one way or another. One such engine is called ZotSpot.
ZotSpot pays you to search using their search engine. Nice, I would say. However, when I search, the results are nowhere as good as Google or Yahoo. However, they are somewhat relevant, so you may find what you are looking for on the second page or third. Well, I can put up with that, I think; after all, I am being paid to do this search. How much am I being paid? Well, according to the FAQ, if I just search using their search engine, I will make a decent amount (notice no amount specified). However, we get a hint of this amount further down the FAQ.
There is a referral program, and in that they assume that every person you refer will make an average of $0.25 for you per year. This tells me that if I don’t refer anyone, just by using the site, I am not going to make more than a couple of bucks. That’s too little for me to give up Google. Anyway, I did try out the ZotSpot search for some time, and at the end of that, I have got $0.00 in my earnings.
We think the only way to make money on that search engine is to refer thousands of people to join up, and then hope that they refer others and also use the search engine at the same time.
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