$1B Internet Search Engine Give-Away

[Faithless]

I think it's hype.

I did a search with [Chinese "nuclear oxide"] and it came back with results about "Chinese Rugs" and "Chinese Furniture". :rolleyes:

EmpowerSearch.com Launches Unprecedented Internet Event (http://press.arrivenet.com/bus/article.php/567907.html)
Distribution Source : PRNewswire

Date : Monday - January 24, 2005

CLEARWATER, Fla., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- EmpowerSearch.com, the fastest and extremely user-friendly search engine, announces an unprecedented offer to its first new 1,000,000 visitors. New visitors are encouraged to go online to http//http://www.empowersearch.com/ as soon as possible. Each who agree to let EmpowerSearch.com be their home page for 90 days gets free $1,000 gift certificate.

According to company president Alan Curtis, "We know that Internet users will love Empower Search once they give us a try. We're making it worth their while by giving them this great reward."

Curtis continued, "Many of today's search engines are so interlinked that users get the same predictable results. Empower Search gives them a totally new, very efficient, and extremely high-speed access to the Internet."





Just how powerful is Empower Search? Test results show an incredible increase of 3.5x faster than Yahoo and 11x faster than Overture, even faster than Google. Empower Search is faster than anything Internet users have experienced previously.

"Another big difference is that we're updating Empower Search monthly. Some of the most well-known search engines wait months, even years, to update their search data," Mr. Curtis added.

"Years of work and tons of money invested delivers results Internet users have only dreamed of," Alan said proudly.

Many companies are paying $10 or more "per click" for search engine placement. Remember the good old days of "10 cents per click?" Empower Search returns to yester-year with a top-position 10-cents-per-click rate.

"Until Empower Search, the heart of American business, the small business owner, has been forced out by the big boys grabbing top slots on Yahoo!, MSN, Google or Overture," Alan added.

To get a $1,000 gift certificate from Empower Search, Internet users need only to log on to http//http://www.empowersearch.com/ . Nothing to buy. Not a contest. Everyone wins! Just log on to http://www.empowersearch.com/ and click the $1,000,000,000 Give-Away icon.

Empower Search LLC
CONTACT: Alan Curtis, President, or Info@EmpowerSearch.com, or William
Thompson, Director of Marketing, or Bill.Thompson@EmpowerSearch.com, both of
Empower Search, Inc., +1-800-529-8313, or fax, +1-727-499-0300

Web site: http://www.empowersearch.com/

[Arex]

Sounds like a bunch of bullshit:
Using Your $1,000 Gift Certificate

When you receive your $1,000 Gift Certificate, simply go on to the Internet to the online catalog shopping service's web-site noted on the certificate.

You'll find watches, jewelry, toys, games, photo, electronics, house wares, tools, luggage, DVDs, CDs, apparel, office supplies, travel, house hold items, musical instruments and much more.

90 days from the date you submit the form, you may claim your gift certificate by sending us an email at giveaway@empowersearch.com.

Order up to $1,000 worth of the merchandise you want.

You don't have to use your $1,000 Gift Certificate all at once.

Use it at your leisure or as the situations come up.

Your $1,000 Gift Certificate has a unique Pass code assigned to you.

Enter this Pass code when you order.

The entire purchase price of your order will be reduced to ZERO!

You only pay the shipping costs.

If you want your order shipped to addresses outside of the USA or Canada, there is a small additional shipping cost.

Simply e-mail us requesting your shopping spree ninety days after you have set us as your home page, we will verify your use of EmpowerSearch.com and mail your shopping spree certificate to you.


Empower Search Gift Certificate Promotional Program

The holder of a Gift Certificate acknowledges that he/she has read the following and further that he/she agrees to the following terms and conditions. Empower Search LLC, is only the provider of the Gift Certificate. As such, Empower Search LLC, its agents, assigns, affiliates, employees, and heirs (Empower Search) are not responsible for the products or services the holder of a Gift Certificate or Pass code orders. The holder of a Gift Certificate or Pass code agrees to hold Empower Search harmless with regard to the holder's use of the Gift Certificate. Empower Search makes no representation as to the value of the Gift Certificate to the holder.

Privacy

Empower Search will never release any information about its Users to any third party for any reason whatsoever. All information about our Users remains completely confidential. In matters wherein the User contacts an affiliate or vendor of Empower Search, the User agrees and acknowledges that Empower Search has no control over that affiliates or vendors Privacy Policy. Empower Search recommends that its Users that do contact an affiliate or vendor of Empower Search be aware of the affiliates or vendors Privacy Policy.

User understands that the Gift Certificate or Shopping Spree may only be redeemed at the pre-selected online catalog.

So basically, you use their "search engine" for 90 days and they send you some gift certificate to some unknown on-line catalog where you can select from their various items and all you pay is shipping. No information is provided regarding what's available at the store, the cost of the items, or the shipping charges and no representation is made as to the value of the certificate. In all likelihood, this $1,000 gift certificate will really only be good for a bunch of crap which isn't even worth the shipping charges you'll have to pay. Either that, or the price of everything will conveniently be inflated by $1,000, or, the items in the catalog will be so expensive, $1,000 won't be enough to pay for anything.

RX