There are a couple of good reasons for you to use Live Search over Yahoo or Google but if they aren’t convincing enough, here’s one more – you can win prizes (free talktime) for every search query that you type in Live Search. It’s a game of pure luck.
It works like this – you do a regular search in Live Search and pair of Dice will roll on your screen as shown in the animation above. If you are lucky and manage to get a double ‘6′ within a 10 minute interval, you win the game.
To try your luck with dice (and search), visit winwithsearch.com. The more you search, the better the chances of winning a prize.
A game session lasts for 10 minutes only so even if you win a prize, you won’t to wait long for entering the next session. Give it a shot.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/use-live-search-and-win-prizes/5811/
Reader Comments
I searched for VC++ Blog and I got 6 and 5 on the dice. I thought maybe I should narrow it down and did VC++ Testers Blog and Bingo 6 & 6 on the dice.
However, like any other microsoft product I couldn’t claim the prize, here is the ScreenShot link and when I signed into Live it again took me to the Search Page and not the page where I am supposed to enter Mobile Number to claim the prize.
Not that I need the prize but to enlighten users that they could be wasting time with Microsoft.
Written by Chetan on 12.04.08
Thanks Amit I just now got double ‘6′ within 3 minutes…. they asked me to sign in to my live ac and took my cell no. I am expecting a message from them withing next 24hrs…..oh god…it’s so exciting… i can’t wait for such a long time. Now every minute is like day for me …………and yes i will surely tell u what’s the surprise.
Written by Parikshit on 12.04.08
Sorry to hear that. Which browser were you using?
Written by Amit on 12.04.08
Thanks you so much amit i just won twice!!!
Written by Abhishek S Jain on 12.04.08
Me won :)
Written by Mrinmay Bhattacharjee on 12.04.08
Use Opera Web Browser for this.
Written by Mrinmay Bhattacharjee on 12.04.08
That’s the impact made by Google and if you need to turn people towards your side, you need to offer something like this.:)
by the way what’s the value of talk time you people are winning?. I guess one needs to have a GPRS enabled phone to receive the prize.
Written by Rohit on 12.04.08
friends the contest will be ending on jan 3 2009 so this is the only period (unless microsoft extends this)you can make some bucks. Give a try to it and i am sure microsoft will definitely lengthen the time period as it is absolutely difficult for microsoft to take the attention of google users towards live search.
Written by moinuddin14 on 12.04.08
Argh. I use Live Search all the time actually (just “almost” there with Google’s and Yahoo!’s relevance), and I think these little gimmicks are rather disappointing.
I get how Microsoft does need more people using Live Search, so relevancy can get better through the users, but maybe the algorithm just isn’t that good. Instead of gimmicks, Microsoft should work on enhancing the feature set available for search. More tools to help assist, would be great.
Microsoft should point out their Image and Video search too, which I think are above the competition. I use searchandgive.com a lot, and it looks ugly and nothing like the Live Search I’m used to. People probably don’t like it either.
I just think Microsoft should get away from gimmicks, and actually improve relevancy, and features within Live Search to make it a more viable switch.
Written by Quikboy on 12.04.08
Thanks Amit
I won in first round
Written by Simrandeep Singh on 12.05.08
I won 3 rounds in this contest and within 24 hours I got 3 messages that I won, they sent me the ID and password for registration on link and the 3 prizes were balance worth 100 Rs/- each, so I bought 3 BSNL top up coupons and the system worked pretty fine.
I first saw about link on this site ( labnol) and on this note I would like to thank Amit.
Labnol rocks!
Keep up good work
Written by srikanth on 12.05.08
Hi,
I won the round and gave the details like mobile no. and I received a message to my mobile that you have won a talktime and claim that by going to oxicash.in website. And there are no steps how to claim in that website. If anybody received talktime do reply me what are the steps to be followed in the website.
Written by krishna on 12.05.08
yes as i mentioned I did receive talktime. Each time you win, you oxicash account will be credited with 100 INR. Click on My Wallet and login with your details, go to Mobile Recharge and choose the voucher based on your state and mobile network provider details
Written by srikanth on 12.06.08
Good Grief. Another reason to not use Live Search.
Written by Sugar on 12.06.08
Yes. after choosing the mobile network provider and the top up then it is asking oxicash id and the pin no. After clicking buy there is a message coming low balance. When I checked the balance in the option provided, it is mentioning 101. how can I retrieve the balance.
provide the information.
Written by krishna on 12.07.08
today i won the prize
Written by Ajay on 12.07.08
hey guys, i have won almost 10 times in three days. You need to create one windows ID and one account at oxicash.in. make sure you enter the same mobile number in both the sites. It was unbelievable. i had Rs.1000 in my oxicash account.
Written by Nidhi on 12.13.08