Bing, Twitter, And A Backpack Full Of Cash (Hopefully For Beer)

You gotta hand it to the Bing guys, they just don't stop coming up with kooky ideas to drive interest in their little search engine (or whatever you want to call it) that could. The latest is a new contest starting tomorrow on Twitter that will see one winner a day walk away with a Bing backpack and a $500 Visa cash card to use for back-to-school shopping. But reading over the fine print, it doesn't appear that you need to use the money for back-to-school shopping. And in fact, the rules state that you have to be over 18 to enter the contest, so unless parents are doing it for their kids, or it's all college kids entering, it doesn't really seem all that student-friendly. And that's good, because it will increase my chances of winning and using the $500 on something more desirable than protractors — like maybe beer.