Tag Clouds Coming to Your Desktop

With overwhelming amounts of information cramming the Internet, it’s harder and harder to find something meaningful every day. Web catalogs such as DMOZ can hardly list a few million sites, when there are literally hundreds of millions of them in the wild. There are almost a hundred billion unique Web pages in existence. It comes to no surprise that this non-structured, hardly categorized crowd can no longer be effectively searched.

Finding a particular site from billions of pages is near impossible statistically. One has to be dedicated and persistent in formulating advanced search queries in order to find the result. You can ‘surf’ the list of returned results, and if you’re lucky, you’ll find what you need. Want more of the same kind of result? Until today, you had no other choice but to continue surfing.

Internet Surfers Get Rewarded

Sick of watching the earnings that search engines post quarter after quarter, two twenty-somethings have started a Web site that gives users a way to share in the wealth.

mySearchBonus.com allows users to earn points every time they search the web. They can redeem those points for gas cards, gift certificates, consumer electronics, and other prizes.

There is no catch. The site generates revenue only through ad sales, and does not solicit to users or re-sell their information. And mySearchBonus.com utilizes the Google search engine, so there is no difference in the results they’re getting — just in the rewards.