Answers About Gomez Peer

Question:

Hey Guys,

Just a quick question to you technical guys, i recently registered to Gomez Peer who are a pay you to be online company. Was wondering what risks are possibly involved with this?

The only noticable thing you see on the screen is an icon down the bottom right hand corner, and although you dont amass a fortune(through online time and referrals) its better than a kick in the ass...as long as theres no risks??

Could any of you tech gurus fill me in on possible problems that may come about from having this program installed.

I am not listing the address of the site as this is a general tech related question and not to spam the boards.

Thanks in advance :)

Answer:

Well, Gomez ( http://www.gomez.com ) makes its living from measuring network and internet performance. For example, a company spread over several locations may use their software to look for bottlenecks in the connections between the offices. The Gomez Peer program is just one several products and services they offer.

Basically, the Gomez Peer is a Java app that runs in the background on your computer. It collects data on the websites you visit and how fast they load, as well as some other network related data like your IP address. Periodically, it transmits the data back to Gomez. Gomez then aggregates this data and offers it to interested third parties. The data the third parties see does not have personally identifiable information.

So what do these "third parties" want with this information? Typically, they are websites who are interested in knowing how well their websites display in different parts of the world. For example, a Taiwanese motherboard maker may have a website that displays perfectly well in Taiwan, but after looking at this data, they find out that it is only so-so in Australia, and very slow in Europe. They can take steps to improve their website, like getting better internet connectivity for their main web server, getting a mirror site set up in Europe, etc.

In return for this, Gomez pays you a small amount every month to you Paypal account. Reading through the Terms of Service, EULA, and Privacy Policy, nothing jumped out at me that raised any red flags. Some people may consider this spyware, but if you are OK with the data that it collects, it looks fairly legit to me.

True Story

Few weeks ago I loss three (3) referrals from Gomez Peer because of the old Referral Link I copied from their site. The Link is working but the account name is not automatically inserted in the referrer field. I contacted them but no luck, they don't reply to my mails. I found out later that they have new website so I visited the website and look for the referral tools. At last I found it and I tried to use the link and in my dismay worst things happened the link is not working.

So I tried my best to look for the fix until one day when I am browsing Easyhits4u for my manual traffic exchange I found one Gomez Peer referral link that is working fine. So I tried it with my account name and yes it is working now. You can copy the link here, just change my user name with your gomez peer username. http://www.gomezpeerzone.com/Apply.aspx?Referrer=oliverdt . There is no chance to loss referral again when using this gomez peer referral link. I hope you find this information useful and thank you for reading my post.

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Here's a Question:

Anyone knows abt Gomez Peer.?

Basically this company pays us to help them test websites for accessibility.Gomez PEER is a service that pays you just to be online, run by a very legit company, I m from india.After a long time,i logged in gomez peer and i saw my account is activated.i m very happy abt that..i want to know does gomez peer still paying for their members or it has become scam?plz help me out ......


Answer:

They are very legit. I've been a member since 8/2001 and run both DSL and dialup 24/7. The PEER used to be called Porivo but Gomez bought them several years ago to add real-world. last mile capability. You can monitor the PEER (java.exe) with a network monitor, (NetPeeker v3.0 is nice) to see all the endpoints they test. These are Gomez clients. I've earned $950 so far and have been in the top 100 consistantly. Now I'm earning around $18/month. By the way, it is NOT compute intensive like most other distributed processing projects so computer resources impact is negligible.