New Search Engine: And Blingo Was Its Name-O

There's a new search engine called Blingo, now available at http://www.blingo.com/ . The twist to this site is that when you search you have a chance to win a price.

This is giving me twitchy little reminders of iWon (remember iWon?) One of the differences is that you're not registering to win a big money prizes; instead the prices are smaller, things like Netflix subscriptions, movie tickets, all the way up to a TiVo or iPod. You don't have to register to win on the site, either; you just search. (Of course if you actually win something you have to provide information to actually get the prize.) Sorry, if you're outside the US or under 18 you can't win.

I ran some searches, figuring it was something running off the Google API, but the results don't match with a Google search (though Google ads are at the top of the page.) They have a Blingo external URL that looks like this: http://www.blingo.com/external-result/http://www.fredmeyer.com/ . The relevancy seems a little odd; not bad, just odd. I wonder who's running their database?

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