Comments on: Incentives won’t make Yahoo or MSN #1 search http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:57:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Incentified search options still hanging around » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-496623 Incentified search options still hanging around » Make You Go Hmm Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:13:21 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-496623 [...] More and more search engines are competing for our daily search queries and thus far it’s been a huge uphill battle against the mighty Google. I’ve already weighed in on how using incentives for search queries wouldn’t make Yahoo or Microsoft #1, but could a startup using Ask.com search results (disclaimer: I have IACI stock, which owns Ask.com) have result incentifying search queries? Over the weekend I’ve been checking out a startup located in the same city as Google HQ (Mountain View, CA) that wants to incentify us to use their search engine. [...] […] More and more search engines are competing for our daily search queries and thus far it’s been a huge uphill battle against the mighty Google. I’ve already weighed in on how using incentives for search queries wouldn’t make Yahoo or Microsoft #1, but could a startup using Ask.com search results (disclaimer: I have IACI stock, which owns Ask.com) have result incentifying search queries? Over the weekend I’ve been checking out a startup located in the same city as Google HQ (Mountain View, CA) that wants to incentify us to use their search engine. […]

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » MSN Search and Win incentives already gamed http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-53887 Make You Go Hmm: » MSN Search and Win incentives already gamed Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:40:11 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-53887 [...] Yahoo employee, Jeremy Zawodny, responded to my last railing against search engine incentives plans by referring to them as ‘customer loyalty plans’, comparing Yahoo’s incentive plan to the airlines industry and describing my point of view as a “pretty cynical view of the situation.” [...] […] Yahoo employee, Jeremy Zawodny, responded to my last railing against search engine incentives plans by referring to them as ‘customer loyalty plans’, comparing Yahoo’s incentive plan to the airlines industry and describing my point of view as a “pretty cynical view of the situation.” […]

]]> By: Technology Evangelist http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-53409 Technology Evangelist Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:49:53 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-53409 <strong>Yahoo Considering Search Incentives</strong> Do you use Google or MSN as your primary search engine? If yes, what would it take to get you to switch to Yahoo? This is the question Yahoo is trying to answer through a poll of their email users according to a story late last week from CNET. Yahoo Considering Search Incentives

Do you use Google or MSN as your primary search engine? If yes, what would it take to get you to switch to Yahoo? This is the question Yahoo is trying to answer through a poll of their email users according to a story late last week from CNET.

]]> By: ActoNetwork http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-53337 ActoNetwork Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:06:21 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-53337 <strong>Yahoo Tries to Buy Relationships</strong> This past week Yahoo rolled out a test campaign in which they emailed 5% of their users to see if they would be incentivized to use search. See the News.com story for facts and Yahoo Tries to Buy Relationships

This past week Yahoo rolled out a test campaign in which they
emailed 5% of their users to see if they would be incentivized to use
search. See the News.com story for facts and

]]> By: Jeremy Zawodny's blog http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-53193 Jeremy Zawodny's blog Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:56:10 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060209/2936/#comment-53193 <strong>Loyalty Programs for Search</strong> A number of folks have commented on the survey that some Yahoo! Mail users received about search incentives. I don't know a lot about it, but I'm a bit surprised by the reactions to this hardly new idea. (A9 has had something similar for a while with... Loyalty Programs for Search

A number of folks have commented on the survey that some Yahoo! Mail users received about search incentives. I don’t know a lot about it, but I’m a bit surprised by the reactions to this hardly new idea. (A9 has had something similar for a while with…

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