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Blingo.com Users Win $20,000 Each Just for Searching the Web.


Nik and Nat From New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Receive Big Pay Day For Looking up News on the Internet - Over 36,000 Prizes Awarded Nationwide

MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Blingo, the search and win engine, just awarded Nicole Scarlett and Natalie Gukasyan from New York $20,000 each just for using the search engine to look up a news article. Nik, a graphic artist from New Jersey found out about www.Blingo.com and web surfer Nat signed up under Nik. Because Nat wins, Nik wins a duplicate prize of $20,000. But how is that possible? Is there really a free lunch on the Internet?

Launched in 2004, the quickly growing www.Blingo.com search and win engine has been giving away prizes every day to its Internet search users, over 36,000 to date. Prizes range from movie tickets to large cash prizes, like the $20,000 Nat and Nik each won. People all over the country are using Blingo as their search engine because it provides great results as well as fun prizes.

"I just came across Nik's Blingo link one day. It said she'd won some prizes, so I started using Blingo and now I'm $20,000 richer," stated Natalie Gukasyan of Brooklyn, NY. "The best part is that I don't really have to do anything out of the norm - it's like when you flip on the light switch and the light goes on, except in this case, the power company would give you $20,000 for your efforts."

"It's great to have people like Natalie looking out for me," laughed Nicole Scarlett, a graphic artist from New Jersey who won from Natalie's search. "I've won prizes on Blingo before, but when I saw that her search for a news topic won us both $20,000 I thought there had to be a mistake."

Originally known by the early adopter and tech savvy crowd, Blingo has gained mainstream interest from all ages and backgrounds since its acquisition by Publisher's Clearing House Publishers Clearing House (or PCH) is a multi-channel direct marketing company, that offers discounted magazine subscriptions and household merchandise to consumers with the chance to enter to win one of many ongoing sweepstakes. , widely known for the Prize Patrol that has awarded nearly $200 million to lucky sweepstakes winners. With PCH's support, Blingo now offers prizes ranging from movie tickets, gift cards, new cars, big screen plasma TVs A flat panel TV that uses the plasma display technology. See flat panel TV, plasma display and LCD vs. plasma. , $5,000 in cash and more. In the near future, Blingo search and win users will also be rewarded with entries into Publishers Clearing House's world-famous million dollar sweepstakes.

"Since founding Blingo we've focused on tying together two simple concepts for our users - great search results plus the chance to win exciting prizes," stated Frank Anderson Frank Anderson may refer to:
  • Frank Anderson (chess player) (1928–1980), Canadian chess master
  • Frank Anderson (UK politician) (1889–1959), Labour Party Member of Parliament for Whitehaven 1935–1959
, Blingo CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Now with the backing of Publishers Clearing House, we're able to take our prize pool to the next level. The idea that a new car or thousands of dollars in cash could be waiting for you on your next search results page makes the search experience a lot more exciting for our users."

How To Win

Every day Blingo gives away prizes to people just for using its search engine. For example, a simple search for the nearest pizza delivery “Pizza box” redirects here. For the computer form factor, see Pizza box form factor.

Pizza delivery is the service of delivering a pizza to a customer. Pizza delivery presents hazards such as robbery and murder.
 store in town could win you a gift card or a brand new car. It's that simple. In addition, you can refer friends to Blingo, and if they win a prize - you win that prize too. Imagine, your friend wins a brand new car and you get one too! It's that simple - no scams, no spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it).  just great search results and a chance to win something. Blingo users can also download the free Blingo toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the  in order to make searching on Blingo as easy as possible.

"In the past year I've won 19 great prizes through Blingo - the best being a Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) See PlayStation.  that I was able to give to my brother for Christmas. He went nuts," stated Jake McKee, a Blingo winner from Dallas, TX. "The best thing about Blingo is that I don't have to alter my surfing habits or fill out long surveys to get cool stuff."

Media Interviews

Blingo is able to facilitate media interviews with Blingo winners in all 50 states if you would like to localize lo·cal·ize  
v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es

v.tr.
1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority.

2.
 this story. In addition, Blingo CEO Frank Anderson is also available for interviews on a case-by-case basis.

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 are looking for Looking for

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 at www.blingo.com.
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