Get Paid to Surf the Web :Ask.com search is active

Update - September 25th 7:18 pm
The

AGLOCO

site will be down for about 4 hours of regular maintenance and some upgrading during the next 24 hours. A “down for maintenance notice” will be on the site.
Update - September 24, 7:55 pm
Quick note – we will be doing the distribution post very soon. I had hoped to have it done by the 25th, but in order to give exact distribution amounts for June, July and August hours we needed a couple more days to analyze the hourly data. Hopefully, exact distribution amounts will be worth waiting a couple of extra days for.
Original post

Revenue

– As we posted previously, we completed a major revenue partnership.

AGLOCO

is excited to announce that

Ask.com will soon become AGLOCO’s official worldwide default search provider

.
First, we have been very impressed with

Ask.com’s desire to be in business with the AGLOCO Membership.

(We feel that business works best when both parties want to work together.) More importantly,

we are impressed with Ask.com’s search performance

.

According to the August 14, 2007 report, of the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), Ask rates right with Yahoo and Google in customer satisfaction - Ask 75, Yahoo 79 and Google 78.

Also, ForeSee Results added that,

“Ask has had the biggest increase over time of any e-business company measured by the ACSI, up 21% since it was first measured… Ask.com seems to be well-positioned to rival Google in the coming years because it has a strong search technology lauded by analysts and users alike.”

We will be

adding Ask to the Viewbar

in the next couple of weeks and we hope you enjoy the results as much as we have.
This is a very important step for

AGLOCO and will greatly improve of revenue

starting in October. Many of us have been using the Ask.com search system this last month and agree with the comment above that it is equal to and sometimes more helpful than

Google

. So we hope

Members are as equally enthusiastic about Ask as we are

.
Tech Update - Since moving the servers and fixing crucial items like hour displays, the tech team has since been occupied by installing the

Ask.com

system. The tucows download problem has also been fixed. We know we need updates to the website – they have not made the top of the list yet.
Media – Mike Klingler has a full written transcript of his interview with Brian. Mike and other Members have worked to make this available to all Members in several languages at: Click here to listen to the interview. Click here for written transcript
Member distributions – We will be doing a Member distribution post within the next two weeks with an update of this crucial issue. It will also include an

update of the AGLOCO financial position.AGLOCO crossed over the 1,000,000 Member mark a couple of months ago. And while not the 10,000,000 surge we had set as our summer goal, it is still a fine achievement that you all have made happen.

If you missed the previous post on distributions, you can read it at Member distributions
Thanks for all of your efforts for AGLOCO.
The AGLOCO Development Team
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Recent updated comments:
AGLOCO Official said,September 21, 2007 @ 6:42 am · Edit
Part of the Ask.com project has been released. This is the Ask.com search ability.
We have noticed that the Google and Ask icons were reversed – we will correct that – it may take a couple of days before you see the correction on your Viewbar.
AGLOCO Official said,September 19, 2007 @ 9:20 am
Thanks for the notes on the main site - the engineers are back working on it. They did a ‘fix’ about 24 hours ago. Obviously it solved the problem only temporarily. I know it can be frustrating – Wikipedia was down for a while yesterday just when I needed and it was frustrating. The spike in traffic we get when we send out emails has only made it worse - jams it so that many of the people trying to get in can not. We did add extra servers when we moved last month and we are scheduled to have four more on line this month. I will update when I hear more.
AGLOCO Official said,September 19, 2007 @ 6:00 pm
Carmen - thanks for the note on tucows - the 404 problem is internal to their site. They are a 10 year old public company - which is why we picked them. They have been having problems now for two months with servers etc. They have fixed this before. So this should resolve itself. In the meantime, it puts extra pressure on our site as all downloads are coming off our servers and the session times are long when Members have slow connections and are downloading. This is adding to the pressure from the people checking their accounts due to the recent Member email. All works to make

agloco.com

hard to access right now. Among the tech projects to add when the ask.com software is completely installed will be to add an additional download supplier.
***Below is an interesting comment that was made yesterday which we found fun to read. We have posted part of it here…..
If there is one thing we have learned so far about

agloco - it is not a scam - they send no spam - they cause no spam - the viewbar is easy to install

, takes up little room and has a handy search window with eight different search engines in it. And the people on the

agloco team page are real people.

We have learned that

agloco said it will distribute money to members

when it has money (meaning profits) - and they have consistently not made any promise as to the date that might happen - so people complaining that after 90 days of having some free software on their computer that they have not been paid are complaining about expectations they have made on their own. (As far as I know, there is no free software that pays people to use it anywhere else.)
We have learned that agloco said they

it was NOT ‘a get rich quick scheme’

and that it would take time to build it out.
We have learned that some members who got TOO excited at the beginning are now unexcited.
We have learned that agloco has

over 1,000,000 members and is still growing at 5,000 a day.

We have learned that pushing and demanding things from agloco does not seem to work - but when a large number of members seem to AGREE on an issue it gets addressed - like fixing the hours or the slowness of the site – or with Windows 98 saying that it is on the list to address.
WHAT WE HAVE YET TO LEARN is will

agloco be a financial success

for it members? For those of us who have gotten involved as long as 6 months ago, we sometimes get impatient. Some of us see the huge potential of the idea behind agloco and want it to succeed as quickly as possible. We have learned that Google had a long term plan - it took Google 4 years before having any income — and agloco is also a start up with a long term plan.
I hope those of you reading the blog the first time will hear the various voices that make up this blog community. It is this variety which will in the end help make agloco strong – because we will all LEARN.