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Earn Extra Money While Your Computer is Running
By Shea Wilkinson
There are many, many big online businesses in the world that need to know if and how fast their customers can reach their sites. In order to know this, they pay a lot of money to a company called Gomez. You can earn money just by having your computer running with this small application running in the background. I've done video editing, played resource intensive games, and more, while this little program runs (called the Gomez Peer). It checks every 15 minutes for another "processing job". If it doesn't find one, it just waits another 15 minutes. It uses the otherwise unused capacity of your PC. You can have the Gomez Peer running on as many computers as you like. They need people more than ever and are paying more too! They pay via various methods, but most receive their monthly payment via PayPal. Become a Gomez Peer It does take a while (depending on what where you are, etc) to be admitted. They are supposed to notify you within 2 weeks of applying.
How it works: Using the combined computing horsepower of thousands of PCs around the world, Gomez can measure, for the first time, the real-world performance of Web sites — from the end-user's perspective. The data collected by you will be used by Gomez's customers to improve the performance of their Web sites — eventually improving the online experience for us all. Right now, Gomez is looking for users from all over the world with different Internet connection types, including dial-up and broadband users. It just takes a few minutes to join the community and become a Gomez PEER. What exactly is the "PEER"? The Gomez PEER is a secure, Java-based application that runs in the background of your PC. You may even forget it's there, because it will not disrupt the way you use your computer. Using advanced, peer-to-peer distributed computing technology, the Gomez PEER combines the spare capacity of PCs around the world to measure the performance of Web sites. After you install the Gomez PEER, it will periodically communicate with Gomez servers via the Internet, signal that it's available for work, and request a work unit. And you will be credited for your online time and work processed approximately every 15 minutes that the application is running. Based on your computer's characteristics (Internet connection type, geographic location and Internet service provider), your PC will receive instructions to autonomously test the performance of Web sites — gathering important metrics that help identify network bottlenecks and performance problems. All of this happens "behind the scenes," even when you're away from your PC or asleep. Finally, your PC will send its results back to Gomez, where they are added to the work of thousands of other PCs around the world. The Gomez PEER is available for Windows 2000/NT/XP/2003.
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Contributor's Note
I have been a Gomez Peer for several years and am in the top 2000 people processing data around the world. You can join too. They are needing people to join more than ever.
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This sounds interesting, rather like Seti At Home except you get paid. Could be worth looking into. I am curious as to whether it pays enough to cover the cost of electricity while the computer is on, in which case it might be beneficial to leave a machine running 24/7.
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