How to be Websmart

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You have a chance to win one of many prizes when you use Blingo.com to search the Web.

You don’t have to register to use Blingo.com.

But if you want, you can sign up for free with Blingo Friends first (explained below) to refer friends to Blingo, and better your chances of winning prizes.

Note: Blingo.com is available only to people living in the US.

A little more

Try using Blingo.com instead of Google. Blingo.com uses the Google search engine, so you get the same Google search results when using Blingo.

Why Blingo? For the first 10 Blingo searches you do each day, you have a chance to win one of many prizes, ranging from movie tickets to iPods. No registration is required. If you win, Blingo brings you to a you’ve won screen where you enter your mailing information and the prize is shipped to you.

Blingo has a pretty clean interface, with no pop-up ads. The downside is that sponsored ads appear above the search results instead of on the right-hand side, as in Google.

So remember to ‘Blingo’ instead of ‘Google’.

Extra: Blingo has a free program called Blingo Friends, which does require registration. If you sign up for Blingo Friends, you can refer other people to Blingo Friends. Each time a (registered) person you referred wins, you also win the same prize. Blingo Friends is a great way to increase your chances of winning.

To sign up for Blingo Friends click here. We recommend using a registration email.

To give Blingo.com a try, click here.

If you have Firefox, to add the Blingo engine to your search box, click here.

If you don’t know what Firefox is, click here.

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