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Facebook app allow users to refer and earn

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ReferQuest.com and its Facebook version has launched, allowing its to state what they’re looking for, along with the reward they’ll pay the person who finds it for them.

Money can be earned also by promoting requests, finding matches, and earning the offered rewards. ReferQuest.com currently offers over $40 thousand in rewards. Small businesses can use the free application to offer finders’ fees to reward customer acquisition. Posting requests is free, and users only pay when they’ve found what they’re seeking.

It’s straightforward: Offer rewards for the results you want. We will see though how this new site progresses.

Originally posted on July 3, 2009 @ 11:51 pm

Bing gains but still way too far to challenge Google

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Bing has increased Microsoft’s share of the search market by 1% in the US according to analysis for June conducted by StatCounter. Google, obviously, still dominates the US search market.

Microsoft (Bing, Live Search and MSN Search in total) had 8.23% market share in June, behind Yahoo! at 11.04% according to monthly analysis by StatCounter Global Stats. Google has fallen back slightly from 79.07% in April to 78.48% in June but maintains its strong foothold on the lead. Nothing to worry for Serge and Larry.

Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter, said:

“At first sight, a 1% increase in market share does not appear to be a huge return on the investment Microsoft has made in Bing but the underlying trend appears positive. Steady if not spectacular might be the best way to describe performance to date.”

Data is based on an analysis of 1.316 billion search engine referring clicks (336 million from the US) which were collected from the StatCounter network of over three million websites.

Originally posted on July 2, 2009 @ 9:35 am