Bribe sounds a little harsh so maybe I should say that Yahoo will be offering you an “incentive” to set them as your homepage. There have been a few different sites reporting that this Friday Yahoo will give you a coupon for a free Dunkin Donuts coffee if you set your browser’s homepage to Yahoo.
Sounds easy enough, right? In fact, it almost sounds too easy to me. So your saying that I could set my homepage to Yahoo, print my coupon, and then change it back to anything I want? Also, what’s to stop me from printing these things off in bulk and handing them out to my friends, or, *whispers* sell the coupons to them at a discounted price? 
I wonder how well this promotion will take off? Blog News Channel has seems to think that other companies, like Google and Microsoft, may even follow in Yahoo’s footsteps. In fact, they laid out what they expect the next 15 weeks to look like…it’s a pretty funny list. 
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I’m not a coffee drinker, so that leaves me out.
I don’t live in America, nor do I drink coffee. It seems that the bane of every Yahoo service (them not really thinking about it properly) has even gotten in the way of bribing users. *sigh* And they wonder why all the smart people choose Google…
I didn’t realize websites had the capability to track what page you have set as your homepage. Somehow I don’t think this ploy is going to work quite as well as Yahoo! thinks it will.
I have been pondering how they will go about checking as well, but I think I may have figured out what they will do. They will probably have an option located at the top of the homepage which says “Make Yahoo your homepage” or something to that effect. If you click on that button it will set your homepage to Yahoo and it will redirect you to the coupon.
I don’t think websites can track what your homepage is set to because that is a big privacy issue. So I think Yahoo will just display that link for everyone even if they already have their homepage set to Yahoo.
Just my thought though.
I am not a coffee drinker as well and I cain’t even think where there is a Dunkin’ Donuts by me.
Yep, same here. No Dunkin’ Donuts here and the thought of coffee…. yuck! I still find it funny that Yahoo has turned to a method of bribing people to come to Yahoo.
I do think there is a javascript code that says something to the effect of window.home() or similar, that you can use to go to your homepage when clicking on an anchor.
Mozilla uses this on the page that says your Firefox has been updated.
I’m not sure if that can be used to find out your homepage.
As for me, I’m sticking to about:blank