Comments on: Blingo.com – Goodbye Google…Hello Yahoo, Live and Ask

By: John

John — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:39:55 +0000

Have you tried http://www.iRazoo.com? It is much better than Blingo. They give random prizes and award points which can be exchanged for prizes.

John

By: Sherri

Sherri — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:51:30 +0000

i should have read to the bottom — nevermind the link, it was an April Fool’s joke. WHY WOULD NPR DO THIS TO ME?!

By: Sherri

Sherri — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:49:55 +0000

This is off topic, but I thought you would be interested in this news report about the stimulus checks:

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/01/april_1st/

I hope I don’t end up with an air conditioner instead of a check!

By: Ginny

Ginny — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:53:28 +0000

I’ve been using blingo for quite some time now & was so upset when I saw the yahoo results the other day. I cannot stand it now. I wonder why they switched?

By: nancy

nancy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:29:13 +0000

Thanks for the info Tricia! I will switch too.
From Nancy in LA!

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:25:15 +0000

I agree with you Tricia. Very annoying. I’m changing my search now. If you hear of them going back to Google please let us know!

By: Jules

Jules — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:25:10 +0000

I hate ads and I certainly don’t want to be tricked into clicking on them. If I am interested I will click through but I want them in a specific place – not cluttering up my view. I joined Blingo because of you and I will leave them as a result too. I hadn’t seen the changes but I see them now and I am done – I want Google back and I won’t be patronizing them until they do. Thanks for the head’s up.

By: Jim ~ mydebtblog.com

Jim ~ mydebtblog.com — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:52:21 +0000

I don't use Blingo, only Google for my searching. Any search engine can only operate because of the ads and trying to trip up people to click on them. By integrating the ads into the search results, they will have a higher click through rate. I've noticed a lot of sites have ads that blow up all over the screen, then hide themselves in the banner it came out of. These are starting to get more annoying than the popup ads that used to be such an issue. I have a DVR and skip over commercials, any way to skip over ads to get to what I want works for me. BTW, and shameless plug, I brought mydebtblog.com back online.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:26:57 +0000

Howdy, I and several of my friends who used Blingo decided to stop using it… I left Blingo an e-mail that reads as follows:

I was very disappointed to see that Blingo had stopped using Google as their back end search engine. Google is my standard browser, and it was the whole reason I decided to switch to Blingo and encourage others to use Blingo. I have contacted all of these individuals, and my co-workers who use Blingo and we have all decided to stop using your service until you decide to move away from Yahoo and Ask. The consensus was unanimous, nobody likes to use the service any longer. The search results are inferior from these products and completely unsuitable, and the deluge of sponsored links feels cheap and disingenuous — The reason I used Blingo was because I would be using Google anyways, so why not get a chance to win a prize? Now that Google is no longer used, I have no need to use Blingo anymore. It’s a shame, because I think Blingo saw its star rise and skyrocket because of the use of Google as a back-end search engine, but now I believe the company is going to slowly regress into obscurity. I will check back a couple of times a year and see if the company has come to its senses, but until then I bid you farewell.

By: K

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:05:07 +0000

I guess it changed over ~ Mar 27th. The blog world isn’t pleased from what I have read. One listed the site WINZY as an alternative but they use Ask.com and still have sponsored links but at least they are marked a little more clearly.

http://winzy.com

By: JW Thornhill

JW Thornhill — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:50:01 +0000

Blingo is great! Thanks for the information.