Blingo.com  Search and win prizes! And clicking the sponsored links won’t increase your chances of winning! Really! It Won’t!

Tip #5: Clicking links doesn’t help. Clicking links, whether they’re sponsored links or search results, will not help you win. …We hope you’ll find them useful, but Blingo offers no incentives or rewards for clicking on them.

Just as buying magazines does not increase your chances of winning the PCH Sweepstakes. Really!

Now we all know that PCH was sued by many states for their allegedly predatory practice that allegedly mis-led consumers (many of them allegedly elderly) into spending thousdands of alleged dollars per year on magazines and allegedly useless junk. They allegedly thought it would increase their chances of winning. It didn’t. And PCH told them so, in the fine print. But they still bought tons of stuff, and PCH was in the money.

I remember the long, convoluted instructions they provided for finding and properly placing the coupons and stickers on the entry form. It had to be properly completed, or it would be invalid. People went to great lengths to read every line of the multi-page, small print instructions. Details! Details! Details will separate the losers from the winners.

This Blingo project is powered by Google. So no need to click the ads. Really. Clicking the ads won’t increase your odds of winning. Truly.  There is no reason to click on the Sponsored Listings. None at all. If you click the ads or follow the sponsored listings, you will not increase your chances of winning. Thanks for playing!

I have little expectation of integrity from PCH, but Google…. Google you should be ashamed.
Found on John Battelle’s blog.