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Get Paid to Search - Slashmysearch

Ever wished to make money online, while doing nothing. You would have heard and tried many get paid to programs, wher you get paid to perform online activities like participating in the forum, clicking the advertisement, reading emails, completing offers etc. To perform these activities, you need to have some spare time. What if you dont have time but still want to make money out of it.

Slashmysearch makes it possible to earn just by using this search engine as you would normally use other search services. It is yet another search engine who believes in sharing revenue with end user while providing quality and refined search to you. In todays world, people do billions of search for their own use and it helps company to earn billions of dollars. This company too follow the same revenue model but they share the revenue of their search engine.

I personally liked this search engine very much. Their focus is not to attract user based on getting money out of their search, instead they believe in their search engine that is designed to get you the best results out there on the internet quickly and effectively. They also state that "Using our proprietary algorithms, we are able to "slash" through more of the junk and find you the most relevant results. We filter results from Yahoo, AltaVista, Excite, the Google search engine, our databases and several other sources. We also track what results are visited the most and refine our database with that information."

It simply mean that they are working hard to make their serach engine functionality better and effective than others.

The two features I would like to mention in particular is:

(1) Result Preview: Unlike other search engine, you get a thumbnail preview of each of the results quickly giving you a preview of the web site. This helps you to avoid opening the same website again. Also it helps in identifying the website usefulness from the preview panel itself.

(2) Keyword Suggestion: While typing in your search, you can look for the keyword suggestions drop down box. These suggested keywords may help you refine your search with a term that is more popular leading to more refined results. Refine your search before you even search!

If you are a ebay user, they have also integrated ebay search in their search engine and it helps you a lot to find a product at relatively cheaper price. How it is done is explained in their website which states: "Two types are available for eBay, a regular eBay search and an eBay Typo search. With a regular eBay search, enter you search term and Slash My Search will try to refine your query and seamlessly take you to eBay.

With an eBay Typo search, enter you correctly spelled query, select eBay Typo from the search type selection menu and Slash My Search will automatically generate common misspellings, ommissions and other mistakes that a listing might appear under and seamlessly take you to eBay. Correctly spelled listings will be filtered out.

Sow what's the point of this? We're glad you asked. There are thousands of auctions on eBay that are misspelled either by mistake (eg. IBM Netvista misspelled as IBM Nevista) or there are two ways to spell a word and the seller had to choose one of them (eg. Sidekick 2 or Sidekick II). These hidden listings would not show up as most people would search with the correctly spelled word, now Slash My Search let's you find them quickly and easily! With less people viewing these listings, or maybe none at all, these auctions are not bid up and you can save a bundle! Don't buy from eBay until you try searching through Slash My Search first."

Earning Potential: Like zotspot, this search engine too does not disclose earning model very clearly. As per them, you will earn $0.25/hour. Its not clear how they count an hour. Whether it is based on the number of hours you are logged in or it is based on number of hours, you actually search. They also have referral system, where you earn $0.15/hour from level one referral and $0.05/hour from level two referral. Although they have shown the earning potential of $1980/month, if you make 10 referrals and your 10 referral make another 10 referrals. however in reality its not possible even if you and your referral makes 10 referrals each. It may help you to earn $500 in a month to maximum. Still its good as long as you keep on increasing your referral, you earning will keep on increasing.