Yahoo!'s Australian outpost, a joint venture with the Seven Television Network dubbed Yahoo!7, has teamed with a local supermarket chain in a scheme that pays punters to use its search engine. The supermarket outfit is Coles, which has for years operated a loyalty scheme called Fly Buys that was doing Big Data before anyone …

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Thursday 23rd May 2013 07:48 GMT Tom7

Some basic math

$369 at 50 cents a month would be 738 months., not 164.5.

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Thursday 23rd May 2013 09:03 GMT Anonymous Coward

Presumably anyone who signs up for this

automatically qualifies for free passage on the 'B' arc.

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Thursday 23rd May 2013 15:10 GMT Doozerboy

I wonder how many aussie devs will be writing little console apps to automate this.

One search per minute would net you ~100 bucks a month. Which would take you about half an hours coding tops.

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Thursday 23rd May 2013 21:52 GMT Euripides Pants

If the Borg absorb this....

...will it become Yahoo!7 of 9?

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1. Friday 24th May 2013 08:12 GMT Tyrelever
  
  Re: If the Borg absorb this....
  
  Eadon of Borg?
  
  Resistance is futile unless of course you are running windows then don't worry about it.....
  
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2. Friday 24th May 2013 08:13 GMT Tyrelever
  
  Re: If the Borg absorb this....
  
  Eadon of Borg?
  
  Resistance is futile unless of course you run windows then don't worry about it...
  
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Sunday 26th May 2013 09:49 GMT KiwiGraham

Monthly limit

When I first posted about this on FaceBook (23 Oct 2012) it was noted that there is monthly limit on the payout - 100 Flybuys points per month. It now even says 100 points "per household" and even further says "valid searches".

I said:

"Seriously? Use the Flybuys/Yahoo search tool so they can collect info about your everyday life (as well as your shopping) and they "pay" 0.5 points per search. The standard exchange rate is 200 points per dollar so that's 400 snippets of your life for $1!!! No thanks (and no embedded link)"

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