At first I wasn’t too sure about how fun a game would be that has something to do with search and its a game, sounds like something you’d get when on detention at school!

But Microsoft is really been impressive with pushing the boundaries in trying to get more market reach for its search engine, Bing. And they have created this game which could actually help them give better results and this is how…

The game shows a series of web pages and asks users to guess which query would show each page in Bing’s top 5 results. Users score points based on their answers with 100 points if you guess a query that shows page #1. This is how ever time limited to just 3 minutes.

MIT has even looked at this and commented that
“The idea is to gather useful information on user search habits which could be used to fine tune search algorithms and ranking scheme … Page Hunt is a clever twist on “human computation”–using people to perform tasks that computers find difficult to do.”

Thanks to Mashable for the content and great adverts (quite large pics of a woman looking seductive)