Search is so hot, Tony Danza wants in!

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Search is hot, very hot and everyone wants in on the party, even Tony Danza. (Why there are two mentions of Tony Danza this morning on AdFreak, we really can’t explain—see below.) Anyway, the TV-housekeeper-turned-talk-show-host helped Ask Jeeves give away $1 million to Ronald Kinsey, a software engineer on an air base in Norman, Okla., for using iWon.com, Ask Jeeves’ gimmicky portal that rewards searchers with prize entries for using its site. Danza, whose first-year talk show gamely battles soap operas and Montel Williams for the attentions of the housebound, surprised Kinsey on Thursday with the news he was a new millionaire.

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