Live Search SearchPerks!
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Live Search SearchPerks! was a service that allowed users to search and gain tickets which can be redeemed for items such as frequent flyer miles, video games, and video game controllers. It was part of Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

's Live Search group of services. It has now been superseded by Bing Rewards.

History

On October 1, 2008, Microsoft announced that people could search and redeem tickets for prizes on Live Search SearchPerks! When signing up a person receives 500 tickets and then up to 25 tickets per day (1 per search). From January 21 - 23 a person can receive two tickets per search and a maximum of 50 per day when searching on most Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 sites such as Hotmail
Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail, formerly known as MSN Hotmail and commonly referred to simply as Hotmail, is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft as part of its Windows Live group. It was founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and launched in July 1996 as "HoTMaiL". It was one of the first...

. People can redeem their tickets for prizes several weeks after April 15, 2009, when the offer ends.
The sign-up period was limited to the first 1,000,000 people who signed up before December 31, 2008.

The prizes ranged from frequent flyer miles to Xbox
Xbox
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe and is the predecessor to the Xbox 360. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console...

 games. The sign up requires a Windows Live ID
Windows Live ID
Windows Live ID is a single sign-on web service developed and provided by Microsoft that allows users to log in to many websites using one account...

. Users must download a toolbar
Toolbar
In a graphical user interface, on a computer monitor, a toolbar is a GUI widget on which on-screen buttons, icons, menus, or other input or output elements are placed. Toolbars are seen in office suites, graphics editors, and web browsers...

 for Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...

, which tracks daily and total ticket accruals and provides links to the SearchPerks site.

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