Test Your Search Engine Knowledge With Search Engine Smackdown

by Ben Yoskovitz

The folks at Pronet Advertising have just released a Flash-based online game called Search Engine Smackdown.

The game is simple - pick a fighter - Larry or Sergey from Google, Bill or Paul from Microsoft, Jerry or David from Yahoo, and duke it out by answering a number of search engine related questions.

How many people will really pick Bill Gates as their fighter of choice? Come on!

Some of the questions are easy, but others are definitely a bit more challenging. And, most of the questions are quite interesting too. You’ll have some fun and you might just learn something too!

I’ve already asked them to add a Pause button, and I’m sure they’ll make a handful of improvements over time.

Go play Search Engine Smackdown!

This is a great example of buzz marketing at its finest. It’s fun, catchy, and helps Pronet extend and develop its brand and reputation in the markets where it does business. Nice job.

March 27th, 2007

8 Responses to “Test Your Search Engine Knowledge With Search Engine Smackdown”

#1 Neil Patel March 27th, 2007 at 5:38 pm

thanks for the writeup!

#2 Sean March 27th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Cool game.

I sucked…but I still won!

#3 ploop March 27th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

As buzz marketing goes this is perfectly targeted.

It’s a cool game but I was rubbish!

#4 Char March 27th, 2007 at 7:32 pm

That was hillarious! I won in 2:22 - woo hoo. May have to play again - and of course, I have to share this one with my readers (isn’t that the purpose?)

Thanks Ben

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#7 Dawud Miracle March 28th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

Thanks Ben. I had a little too much fun. Enough to find myself on the high score board today.

#8 Ben Yoskovitz March 28th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

Nice job Dawud - I didn’t quite try for a highscore, but now I’m tempted to give it a go…

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