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**Kristijntje** · 02-13-2006, 08:42 AM,

Quote:Yahoo Inc. is considering offering free music downloads, discounts on DVD rentals and frequent-flier miles to users who make the Web site their primary search engine.

The possibility was disclosed in a recent online survey of some of Yahoo's e-mail users, intended to gauge interest in a rewards program, that detailed the idea and provided a list of potential incentives.

In contemplating such a program, Yahoo is showing the lengths to which it may go to try to erode Google Inc.'s dominance in search...

In December, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates suggested that his company may offer cash or free products to users of its MSN search engine. A few months before that, A9, owned by online retailing giant Amazon.com Inc., started giving frequent users small discounts on purchases from its parent's Web site.

full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/02/10/BUGGVH5MM933.DTL&type=business

jezebel · 02-13-2006, 10:22 PM,

A9 gives a 1.57% discount on Amazon purchases http://a9.com/-/company/instantRewards.jsp

xppman · 02-14-2006, 05:35 AM,

Yahoo had their chance in the US.
Hell Yahoo was first or at least really doing well.
I sold pretty well on yahoo then all of a sudden they started charging and bam.
Traffic quit too.

Me thinks Y and E made a back room deal.
Y gets Japan and E get US.
Four to five years ago or so.
I have evidence to show they may have.

Anti trust is a terrible thing to waste.
Millions where made by both. In separate markets.