You don’t like my search engine? I’ll pay you to use it! That’s what Yahoo! is willing to do. They will give different kind of rewards to their users if they use mainly Yahoo! Search Engine. They are currently polling their users about what kind of rewards they would like to get in exchange for using Google’s first competitor as their primary search engine.

In order to get these rewards, users will have to use a specific search box:

Users would have to log in or use a search box specifically designed for the program, like “a Yahoo rewards toolbar

An article in Cnet gives more information about it.

The rewards offered would be stuff such as unlimited mail storage, free Yahoo! Messenger Voice credit, or even flyer miles.

Personally, I think that’s one of the poorest decision they could come up with. I have to admit that their search results are far from being the most relevant. By forcing people to use their search engine more often, in a certain way, they force people to find irrelevant results, while they could get better information somewhere else.