MSN announced the launch of their new SearchPerks program on Wednesday, a promotion that offers searchers points, or tickets, for searching through MSN.com. The points can be redeemed for prizes including airline miles, t-shirts and a wireless XBOX 360 controller.

Users receive 500 tickets just for signing up for SearchPerks before the registration deadline, which is Dec. 31, 2008, and can earn up to 25 points a day. Users can only accumulate tickets using Live Search at Live.com or MSN.com, Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger and earn one ticket per search.

Then, users must download a Perk Counter which will keep track of how many tickets have been earned. According to Microsoft, the Perk Counter, “also tracks some online activity, like clicks on banner ads. The Perk Counter does not track what you search for or which websites you visit.”

The promotion will end on April 15, 2009 and tickets can then be redeemed for prizes three to four weeks after the program ends. SearchPerks is expected to gain more popularity than MSN’s original search user promotion, Live Search Cashback Program.

Also, SearchPerks works only on Internet Explorer- if you try to access SearchPerks in Firefox, you will receive a message informing you to open the SearchPerks link in IE. Also, the PerkCounter only works in IE.

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