Blingo Officially Launches New Search Engine
Thousands Nationwide Have Won Prizes in Beta Period
San Francisco, March 30, 2005 -- New search site Blingo (www.blingo.com) is officially launching its Internet service today. After five months of successful beta-testing, Blingo has refined its search service with three important enhancements:
-- Search results are now powered by one of the world's leading search companies,
-- The prize pool that visitors instantly qualify to win is now significantly larger, and
-- Blingo Friends, a new feature, makes it even easier to win.
"With these improvements we've made Blingo even more compelling," explained Blingo co-founder and CEO Frank Anderson. "First and foremost, people use search engines to find information, and our new search partnership allows Blingo to better deliver the information our users want. The great thing about Blingo is that we also give our users a chance to win a great prize with every search. There's no catch, no registration, and no hassles, so why wouldn't someone use Blingo to search the Web?"
Search and a Chance to Win
Visitors to the Blingo website search for words or phrases, just like on other popular search engines, but at Blingo each search is also a chance to instantly win prizes. This month, Blingo prizes include Apple iPods, Amazon gift certificates, TiVo DVRs with a year subscription, Blockbuster subscriptions, or free movie tickets.
Whenever users search at Blingo, they automatically qualify to win the kinds of prizes everyone wants. Several times a day, Blingo picks a winner at random and ships the prize to the lucky searcher. During its five month beta period, Blingo has given away nearly 2,000 prizes to Blingo users in all 50 of the United States.
Now the prize pool is even larger, which automatically means more winners every day. And Blingo Friends makes it even easier to win a prize. By joining Blingo Friends users can invite their friends to use Blingo and they will win an exact duplicate of any prizes that their friends win. That means if your friend wins an iPod, you'll get one too.
"I still can't believe I won a Plasma TV when all I was doing was searching the web," said Internet searcher and Blingo winner James K. Falconer of Hamden, Connecticut. "If you think I'm using any other website to search the Internet, you're crazy!"
About Blingo
Blingo combines search (the Internet's second most popular activity) with thousands of prizes (sweepstakes and contests are the Internet's sixth most popular activity). The Blingo Website delivers both great search results and attractive prizes to build brand loyalty and repeat traffic. Learn more about Blingo or find what you're looking for at www.blingo.com.
