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Several weeks ago I mentioned the Absurdly Cool Freebie Finder, which highlights the best offers from freebie sites around the web. Andrew Cantino reports that he’s made some updates:
Freebie Finder has evolved significantly since you wrote about it, and so I thought your readers might be interested in taking another look. Freebie Finder still aggregates freebies from across the web while filtering out scams and referral pyramids. It does this by detecting links that occur across multiple sites with identical URLs. Since referral scams usually have a unique ID embedded in their URL, this technique filters out almost all of these scams. What’s left tends to be actual freebies. I’ve found this technique to work remarkably well.
In addition to finding freebies automatically, the new Freebie Finder also attempts to predict categories and countries for new freebies. It then utilizes user input to refine these predictions. Users vote on relevant categories, descriptions, countries, and ratings for freebies, and the system uses these votes to refine its initial guesses about the freebies. Users can also comment on freebies.
Current freebies include:
- a Wisconsin Cheese Tasters Kit
- samples of sanitizing hand wipes
- a sample pack of HP paper
- a soccer DVD
- a subscription to a golf magazine
- address labels
- 2kg of flour
- a salt substitute
I’ve added Absurdly Cool Freebie Finder to my weekly routine. Every Friday I scan the offers. If there’s anything there I can use, I send away for it. Remember: free is a very good price.
This article is about Odds and Ends Wednesday, 19th July 2006 (by J.D. Roth)
May 19th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
I don’t necessarily subscribe to the adage that “nothing in life is free.” However, I do believe that it does apply to major corporations. In return for free samples, you are selling companies your mailing information (along with the companies that they sell your information to). I have worked hard over the past few years to remove my name from enough mailing lists to ensure that I don’t receive junk mail and catalogs encouraging me to buy stuff that I don’t need. That’s one of the ways that I keep my money in my pocket and not in some multi-national corporation’s bank account.