Surfers getting paid to browse the Web
USA Today--March 31, 1999
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Mouse potatoes, rejoice. A new company is offering Web surfers 50 cents
an hour for their time online. In exchange for the loot, the Internet users must allow a
bar of advertisements to move across the bottom of their screen. AllAdvantage.com plans to
launch the service Tuesday. Members, who sign up for free, earn money anytime they are
online and displaying the so-called viewbar, which opens automatically whenever their
browser is launched. They can make up to $20 a month (that's 40 hours online) and 5 cents
an hour when people they referred are browsing online. AllAdvantage.com, based in Los
Altos, Calif., is run by Jim Jorgenson, who co-founded Discovery Zone children's indoor
playgrounds. He said the company will not sell, rent or exchange identifiable personal
information about members.
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