Review of Homepages Friends – Get Paid to Search

Sorry friends, Homepages Friends is not working anymore.

Homepages Friends is a paid to search program. You are required to install its search provider in your browser and you are ready to roll. And it’s not a software that you need to install, it’s just an added configuration that you need to add ( rather than install ) in your browser and it takes only a few seconds. The service currently works on Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 7 ( IE7) and Mozilla/Firefox browsers. Homepages Friends was previously known ad MySearchFunds.

Homepages Friends is not a search engine in itself. It used to display results from the Ask Search Engine previously but, at the time I am writing this post, it is displaying results from the Yahoo Search Engine, which is actually nice because more people use Yahoo than the Ask search engine. And if you prefer to search in Yahoo, join Homepages Friends right away because after you join, you’ll get paid for every Yahoo Search you do. The only difference will be, you will have to put in your query in the browser’s search box ( after you have set up the Search Provider ) rather than the search box on Yahoo’s site. So, if you can get paid for what you do everyday, WHY NOT, ain’t it?

How do I join Homepages Friends?
You need to have a PayPal account or a bank account at any UK bank or any other bank that uses IBAN to join this program. If you don’t have a PayPal account, get it here. Fill in the form, and add its search provider to you browser. You will find instructions on adding the search provider to your browser on their site after you join them.

How much can I earn from Homepages Friends?
Its website says:

How much money received clearly depends upon how much you use the service for your typical day to day Internet searches.

What that means is, the more you search the more you earn. Also, the website states you can earn in excess of £50 ($100) per year, wait, it says in excess, hence the income potential is infinite.

Plus you can also earn by referring your friends to them. That means, this program is a great way for you to earn funds from your own Internet searching and you can earn even more if you tell your friends and they raise funds in the same way. Here’s a chart that explains how much you can earn from your referrals:

As you can imagine, your friends will want to refer their friends as well, and you can benefit from that too. This program will reward you, as in the chart, for three ‘levels’ of friends. The same will apply to your friends. Everyone wins! Remember, the funds you earn from your friend’s searches do not come from yours or your friend’s earnings, Homepages Friends provides it to you. So, don’t forget to promote this program after you join it. I already have 20 referrals in my downline at the time I am writing this post. ( And I hope to get some more with the help of this blog post )

How do I get paid?
They pay you either into your bank account or via PayPal. They pay you every 30 days, 45 days after the end of each month. For example, for searches in January, they pay you in mid March. The minimum amount that you need to accumulate before you can request a payout is 20 pounds.

Do I have to change how I search?
Homepages Friends’ website states:

The beauty of our service is that you are doing precisely what you already do – search the Internet in the normal way (i.e no repetitive searching or anything which could be construed by myhpf.co.uk or our affiliate partners as deliberate attempts to generate revenue without regard to the results being returned) – but now you earn for FREE by using us as your search provider!

Hence, you don’t need to change the way you search to earn money from Homepages Friends but remember, repetitive searching can get you banned, so use the search box only when you really need to search.

Update:

Due to a change in the terms and conditions and due to the significant amounts of click fraud, HomePages Friends now offers its service to users from the following countries only:

Please note that if you are not in one of these countries, you will still earn money on affiliates who are.