There's no guarantee that you'll win a prize or a bucket of money at Blingo.com, the internet search engine with a twist. But, if you're already performing a whole bunch of searches daily ANYWAY, why not give it a try?

Blingo, a search engine powered by Google, grants registered users an entry in their daily sweepstakes for each of the first 25 searches conducted by a user every day. Its interface is a very simple one (much like Google's). The big difference comes should you win one of the sweepstakes. Instead of receiving your search results, you receive a congratulations you've won something type of page.

As I write this entry, I'm looking at Blingo's front page that boasts recent winners of the last few hours. There's a whole bunch of $5 gift certificates and movie tickets that were issued. . , but there was somebody who won $1,200 cash, too!

Since I do a whole bunch of searching throughout the day, I thought I'd give it a spin. To my relief, signup was a snap and they didn't ask me for any personal information. So far, so good. . , we'll see.