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Yahoo: Free Coffee For Default Homepages

google.blognewschannel.com — Yahoo is going to run a promotion this Friday that gives everyone who sets Yahoo as their default search engine a free cup of coffee from Dunkin Donuts.

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  • Vary, on 10/12/2007, -1/+58Heck, yeah, I'll set Yahoo as my homepage to get a free coffee. For about 30 seconds, until I've printed out the coupon, that is.
    • Rice, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4Ditto.
    • mvprj84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17So how will they stop us from printing 50 of these?
    • twertyto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49Digg -> Blog -> Blog -> Story
      Three clicks later you can actually reach the story or you can click once....

      http://productivityapps.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=66095
    • ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1I want my ketchup :D

      So typical of Microsoft...


      (hypothetically of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if this turned into reality lol)
    • Lobster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow

      I am underwhelmed. They would do better to offer a free Search Engine better than Googles.

      That would do it.
    • ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lobster, their search engine IS Google's....

      Yahoo pulls most of its data off of Google, mixes a little of their own stuff, and spits it back at you. Google and Yahoo are actually pretty tight together.
  • newsunlimited, on 10/12/2007, -28/+8I'll consider setting it as my home page for 30 seconds to print the coupon if it is Starbucks not freakin DD.
    • maclaxguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Man, what's wrong with dunkin donuts?
    • bertram, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Dunkin Donuts coffee is the schiz-nit.
    • SentOne, on 10/12/2007, -13/+17***** starbucks.
    • eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20Anybody who thinks DD is good must not live near a Krispy Kreme...
    • bertram, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6@eqisow - you talking about the quality of KK's donuts, or their coffee? 'Cause I'm talking coffee, and a DD with cream and sugar kicks starbuck's ass...can't speak for KK's coffee though.
    • Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"'Cause I'm talking coffee, and a DD with cream and sugar kicks starbuck's ass"

      And layers a large amount of fat onto yours :/
    • tygern, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Starbucks is evil. I don't give any American store with a location in the 15th century Forbidden City in China my business.
    • Aiwanei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Anybody who thinks DD is good must not live near a Krispy Kreme..."

      Krispy Kreme has better donuts, but Dunkin Donuts wins hands down for coffee.
    • ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You guys arguing Starbucks/KK vs. Dunkin Donuts are just arguing about whether French roast or Columbian roast is better, that's all. If you liked burnt coffee (French roast) go with Starbucks/KK. If you like Columbian roast, go with Dunkin Donuts or McDonalds (yes, believe it or not) new "premium" coffee. It's just a preference.
  • lgc90, on 10/12/2007, -37/+1funny that the story is hosted on google... or is it not? "google.blognewschannel.com" meh.
  • mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I'm a fat web developer who eats too many Dunkin Donuts and I'd love some free coffee. :P

    P.S. read the article, its damn funny.
  • ernkush, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4This sounds like it would be very easy to abuse. One needs only to set their homepage temporarily as yahoo and they will recieve a freebie.
  • truebullfan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Smart idea by Yahoo I bet at least 1/4 will keep yahoo as there homepage once they do it
  • MoneyShot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Interesting promotion.

    It's not like they don't know you'll change your homepage right back again. What they're after here is simply the buzz that surrounds the promotion. And Dunkin Donuts is banking on the fact that X% of people who actually bother to stop in for free coffee will probably buy something to nibble on too.
    • night141, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yep, however selling very cheaply produced soft drink cups to customers who only average about 2 refills per cup for $1.00+ are where the restaurants make most of their profits.

      I woulda preferred a free doughnut :)
  • izzie2, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3cup of coffee > 47 ft. away and around 5 cents a gallon

    dunkin donuts> (from here lr. ar.)172 mi at 2.45 per gal.
    thanks anyways
  • alx1507, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Anybody else find the "Microsoft offers Ketchup" part humorous? haha.
    • Slipknotic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Week fourteen: Google offers to sell ad space on front page to any other search engine for $100 million a day
    • hotbeefman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Thank you for asking! I cracked up.
  • MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1How the hell are they gonna know that you set it as your homepage, and how are they gonna know what email address is associated to that particular comp.
    • ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Ever heard of "web programing"? You can do just about anything on the Internet buddy!

      I'm pretty sure this can easily be done via a Javascript invocation.....among other methods...
  • Glenn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Pretty smart marketing ploy. Not happening for me though. *hugs digg*
  • dodger2020, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9And if you forward this link ( http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_Free_Coffee_For_Default_Homepages ) to 314 people not only will Bill Gates give you a nickel for every forward you'll be helping little Johnny get his new kidney!
  • rynoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Wow. That's an interesting promotion. If it were a cup of Tim Hortons coffee I probably would have considered it.
  • drlha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If only there was a Dunkin' Donuts in town. I really like their coffee. :(
    • brosner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If only I had a computer with the Internet... oh wait a second...
  • DannySpace, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I find it funny that Yahoo has to buy their customer support. It just makes me google, er... I mean giggle.
  • totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Can't wait for Jason Calcanis to offer TWO cups of coffee if you set your homepage to Netscape ;)
  • nogoodreason, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yahoo still has a search engine?
  • bluedefender8, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"Week nine: Yahoo offers a chance to meet Tom Cruise"

    I'll PROBABLY be skipping that week. Don't want to win by accident!

    :P
  • javip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12there'll be lots of people who will switch temporarily to get a free coffee..
    there'll be a lot of people who will keep it as their homepage
    there'll be a lot of people who buy a donut with their free coffee

    either way yahoo makes money and publicity, and dunkin donuts makes money and publicity

    oh and some people who are desperate to save a couple of dollars get free coffees..

    good idea all round
    • geekoid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yep, the joy of knowing Yahoo gets all my searches personally identifiable to me really appeals... But I'd switch for 30 seconds.
  • BrK1, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2DD coffee tastes like roasted ass. And yahoo sucks. How exactly is this a good deal for me? I have to ***** with my default homepage, print a coupon, take it to DD, attempt to place my order in some quasi-English the employee can understand (they always want to insist on dumping a bag of sugar and two udders worth of milk in a cup, there is hardly any room for coffee in the default way), then I get to "enjoy" ***** cup of coffee. Yay for me!

    This offer sucks balls, I'll stick with the free coffee at work.
    • hodyoaten, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1-2 diggs? The guy can't have an opinion?
    • tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8how do you know what roasted ass tastes like?
    • Disease, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No, this is Communism. An opinion isn't allowed.
    • ZeonZumDeikun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Agreed, but, well, damn. If they caught up with the times, I'd put it back...

      I mean, Yahoo used to be my favorite place to do just about everything until other sites had better and more flash games, Google thoroughly owned their free services, and their ho-hum LAUNCHcast service got kicked in the nads by podcasting and file sharing and iTunes.

      If you want a weak sauce version of everything you have from your current homepage, feel free to get a cup of coffee for chanigng back for a grueling thirty seconds.
    • geekoid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Maybe he ate a donkey before?! Either way, if he knows what roasted ass tastes like, it's pretty damn suspect.
  • donloper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5What about the Mormons?
    • hotpepper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1They can have Cafe-Lib.
    • sadler121, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2hehe, ya! what about us! damn Yahoo is discriminating against Mormons! Off with their heads!
  • nogoodreason, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hang on, are we letting personally identifiable information out to Yahoo.... in exchange for coffee??
  • dolemite5005, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Or, instead I could simply go to work, go to a rest stop on the freeway, go to one of many diners, all which could provide me with free coffee as well.
    • estvir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Or, instead you could realise that the world doesn't revolve around you and there are many (Thousands) who will take advantage of this, and it is an interesting (I'll dare say 'smart') PR move.

      And, I really don't care people are going there for free coffee, it's just the whole free promotion halabazoo that people are interested in. It could be a free pencil from a stationery store, or a sticker and it would still garner a lot of interest.
  • FlyboyP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dammit I would so do this.. if there were a Dunkin D around town. Yahoo ought to totally sell out, bribe the internet every month with some freebie for using their services. Services which honestly can be pretty good.. Yahoo maps is way better than anybody elses' for example. The Mail beta is cool too. Once word got out that Yahoo gave away free stuff regularly, yeah people would visit and many would stay.
  • hotpepper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'd rather have a Tim Hortons donut.
  • fatas, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4When they mean "Everyone" I assume its only in America? ie. not the rest of the world?

    ***** Americans.
    • tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you want to fly to Canada or the U.S., I'm sure Dunkin Donuts won't turn you away. Unless you're an *****, maybe.
    • fatnutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Bad Fatas(s), no coffee
  • Splitt3rxx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1why doesn't yahoo just give up on thier search engine? google FTW
  • torifile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't remember the last time I even *went* to yahoo.com. Do people still use that?

    And with my hosts file fixed, I can't even go to the link to get the ad. Sigh. Oh well. Not for people who know how to use the web... :)
  • terrenceshaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2switch ...go get free coffee...switch back...its worth 5mins of effort for some Java....
  • SuperSunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I work at Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins. If the next day (Saturday, when I work) is jam packed with free coffee coupons, I am going to go kill myself making all that coffee. Well, we already get too much in large drive-thru orders.
    • fatnutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where you located? I'm coming to you with Lincoln Continental full of the bastards...Only 1 per customer? Good thing I have 50 different costumes.(That sounds like something Peter Griffin would say) How about, I just bring in the whole stack and you redeem them all at once? I wanna get an entire construction crew worth..
  • SuperSunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know what Dunkin Donuts some of you go to, but we don't dump bags of sugar. You tell us, and we input the right amount in a machine. That's all.
  • ktchpmn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4typical east coast bias. i think there are only 1 or 2 dunkin doughnuts in the entire state of Washington.
    • mikeflynn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But you know you want that free ketchup.
  • kuyakew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thats great. anything for free coffee.

    in my expirience DD coffee give me the biggest boost. deli/cart in the middle and starbucks makes me sleepy.
  • crackintosh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wouldn't drink that crap if you gave me Yahoo! I like real coffee. strong black coffee. Starbucks coffee is good, but giving Starbucks my money is not.
  • google_bot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1isnt dunkin donuts only East Coast. None in the Bay Area.
  • h4lofourt33n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Week fifteen: Microsoft offers Google ketchup"

    hahahahahahahaha. awesome.
  • c0d3b0y, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1we don't even have a friggin dunkin donuts here -.-
  • absmith1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2dunkin donuts coffee sounds more like punishment than a reward to me.
  • fatnutz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0You probably didn't like the coffee because I dunked my "dough-nut" in it....

    Fatnutz Blend...
  • alldaybaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1for what it's worth, yahoo still has the best free sports content on the web (live scores, columns, fantasy, etc.)
  • catpounce004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have better things to do with my internet connection, like setting a home page I really like (like mine own personal site, thank you). If I want coffee that bad, I'll buy one.
    • fatnutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well thank you catpounce, before I even read this article, i thought to myself....Would catpounce switch his home page for a free cup of coffee....Always keepin' me guessin you kook!
  • Namco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Looks like it's time to start using VMWare, cause I would never set a real computer to use Yahoo as the default anything.
  • Namco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well after a bunch of searching, there isn't one near San Jose, San Francisco, LA, nowhere.
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