According to figures released this week by search engine giant Google, playing bingo over the Internet is becoming increasingly popular across every age group and gender and is the mightiest rival to online poker.

Although virtual poker has long been thought of as the most popular Internet gaming pastime, Google revealed that bingo has rapidly caught up and is now engaged in a race to decide which game is the most dominant.

”Due to the presence of so many bingo operators, competition is becoming more and more intense forcing free bingo sites to offer more and more benefits, bingo bonuses and added benefits to ensure loyalty and traffic,” read a statement from Google.

”Although bingo has been considered to be a female game in the past, the taboo has diminished as more and more male players are traced in the chat rooms of online bingo halls. The wide offerings and the quality of the service are the main reasons of the increasing popularity.”

Another reason for the growing popularity of online bingo is the fact that the game is very easy and straightforward to play. Google stated that, unlike poker, online bingo players do not need to wager major amounts of money as cards can be bought for very little.

In addition, it stated that bingo is an online game that can be played while browsing the Internet with attention not mandatory, unlike poker. In the modern game, play is almost automatic, as players are not expected to call out bingo when they’ve won. All they must do is purchase their cards on time before a session begins.

Finally, the majority of online bingo sites now offer chat rooms with around-the-clock support enabling players to meet, talk and share views on their favourite games.

If you have gone over your Christmas spending budget this festive season then Ladbrokes Bingo might have just come up with the answer to your prayers as they are giving all their online bingo players the chance to win all their household bills paid for by them every single month throughout 2009! Christmas is a great time of the year, but as lots of us know it can be quite easy to spend more than we planned to, so if you are dreading those bills coming through your letterbox then it might be worthwhile having a read of just what this January offer from Ladbrokes Bingo entails.

Every 20 bingo tickets purchased at Ladbrokes Bingo between Monday 5th and Saturday 31st January will give that player one entry into their (Pay Your Bills 2009) prize draw, the same also goes for every £2 spent on their mini games, for those of you that like to play your side games along with your online bingo.

Ladbrokes Games is attached to Ladbrokes Bingo and you can double your chances of winning this prize by playing bingo here because every £5 you spend at Ladbrokes Games during this period will give you another entry into this prize draw. This means that no matter what your preference of online play is all players at Ladbrokes Bingo are basically being given the chance to not have to worry about paying a household bill again for a whole year.

This is a great offer from Ladbrokes Bingo and it is good to see that all their players should have a fair crack at the whip on this one, so to speak. The bingo fairy has been doing her rounds this Christmas time at Ladbrokes Bingo and she is not finished yet. The bingo fairy still has £1,000’s of free cash to give away and she will continue to shell it out between 11am - 1pm and 7pm - 9pm, right up until the 4th January, in fact we have heard that there are still £100,000 worth of leftovers for the bingo fairy to hand out!

If you have been playing online bingo for a while now then you probably would have come across (B.O.G.O.F) bingo offers before now. Well we can tell you that you want find this latest buy one get one free offer from Ladbrokes Bingo to take part in anywhere else on the net because when you buy one bingo ticket during this event, the number of free bingo tickets that they will give you will increase each time... buy one get one free will become buy one get two free… three free.. four free and even five free and so on!

To take part in this buy one get one free bingo event at Ladbrokes Bingo you need to play at their bingo site from 16th to 18th January, between 12pm – 3pm and 7pm and 10 pm in their Lounge and Bedroom bingo rooms. From what we can see by the online bingo promotions that are already coming out of Ladbrokes Bingo, 2009 looks like it is shaping up to be a great year for their bingo players!