We've recently joined this organisation called My Homepages Friends. What it claims to be is a opportunity to make money while searching the Internet, something most of us do a lot anyway. All you need to do is log onto the website, by clicking here, and complete the simple form. You then get a page asking you to change your homepage to the My Homepages Friends search page.
At the moment this is fairly basic, they seem to be developing it as they go along, but they have some gadgets, and promise online shopping and a blog. They promise to pay around 2p for each search, and in the few days I've been a member this has amounted to the princely sum of £1.20. Payments are made when you reach a threshold of £20.
There are a couple of catches, it works best with Internet Explorer v7 or Firefox, as you define your search box in the top right hand corner, and you can only search with Yahoo!, with whom they have made an exclusive agreement. If you want to Google, any searches won't count towards your total.
You can see your search totals as you go along, although in monetary terms these are 1-2 days in arrears. They say one day, but we only saw our income from Thursday and Friday appear the following Monday. As well as getting 2p for each search, 10% of any referrals that you make are added onto your account as friends. Payments can be make by bank transfer or by PayPal. I wasn't sure about entering the bank details, so I joined via PayPal.
MyHF discourage repeat searches, or not following a search through with a click, and can terminate accounts for misuse. They will also flag up searchers who just sit and make random searches each day. But if you make your usual searches, then this can gradually add up. It's no Get Rich Quick scheme, but could be a useful little bit of pocket money.
Incidentally, rather than making the My Homepages Friends page your homepage, an alternative is to save this in your favourites. My home page is still our broadband provider, but if I want to make a search, or log on to see my results, I use the Favourites page.
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