Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion
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Heads up for Bing search users with a Microsoft account, starting today and until Feb 20, you can earn up to 300 Microsoft Rewards points daily (normal max is 200) via Bing search from a PC (5 points per search). Plus other rewards points from the Microsoft Rewards page. Also, you can download the Bing mobile app to get additional points on Bing searches, normal is up to 100 points daily. I think you can also get a 500 points bonus for downloading the Bing mobile app if you don’t already have it.
There are various ways to cash out Microsoft Rewards points, but my fav is just to go for the $5 Amazon Gift Card, which requires 5,250 accumulated points. I get one about every 3 weeks just doing a few minutes of Bing searches daily (news items), the few activities on the rewards page, and some Bing mobile searches. On the latter, selecting Movies, a movie, then Cast, is a speedy search method.
Btw I realize that some will be too busy to bother with any of this, but it’s there if you have the time.
I’m cashing out once tomorrow, and with this double rewards bit, I guesstimate again in another 9 days.
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I’ve been doing this for over a year. It takes 6500 points for a $5 Walmart IP GC, more than the $5 Amazon GC, but we use the Walmart GC to buy cat food since we’ve been feeding 4 feral cats for over a year, along with our house cat. I was thrilled to see the 300 points daily through Feb 20. Regularly it’s 200 points daily for Bing searches on the computer, sometimes a little more if the quiz in the Daily Set is worth 50 points instead of 30. They also occasionally send emails with links to earn additional points, usually 50. I don’t have a smartphone, so don’t earn the mobile points. I’m still able to get a $5 Walmart GC about every 25 days. And it only takes maybe 3 or 4 minutes a day to do. Once the account is set up, you can access the Rewards part and answer the poll and quiz, etc., and do all but 20 points of the searches from Chrome as well as from Edge. In order to earn the 20 points from the Bing search, you have to access Rewards (and the Bing search tool) from Edge. To find the Search section, look at the upper right side of the Rewards page and click on Points Breakdown, and a pop-up window will appear over the Rewards page. That will give the points earned from each category so you can tell how many more searches you need to do in each category - Microsoft Edge Bonus, PC Search, Mobile Search, Complete Daily Offers
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@dionaea Ya, I’ve been in on this for about a year too. As you mentioned, I see it’s not really double the normal daily PC search points of 200, but an increase to 300 points…still good though.
Abtw, you do NOT need to use Microsoft Edge for your PC searches–I use Firefox for my main browser, and Bing and Microsoft Rewards are totally cool with that. However, you can get an additional 20 points a day for using Edge and doing a few searches.
I don’t bother with Edge though, and can’t actually on my Windows 7 PC. I also don’t earn points by buying stuff from Microsoft. I am much happier with them paying me, rather than the reverse!
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No Bing No Google … I use duckduckgo.com for privacy
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@myisland said in Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion:
No Bing No Google … I use duckduckgo.com for privacy
Amen. Privacy is of utmost importance and not up for compromise. I only use duckduckgo.com. It is quite puzzling so many people are not aware of this awesome search engine.
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@fatwking I occasionally use DuckDuckGo, and would probably do so more if I was in a witness protection program or had a high security profile somewhere. I just use Bing for the rewards (it’s my home page, but I only use it a few minutes each morning).
At this point Microsoft should be aware that I like quickly flashing up news briefs, movie cast members, and dig Amazon gift cards. Beyond that, not so much–well, at least from Bing.
I too value privacy, and don’t participate in social media stuff like Facebook, Twitter, and so on. Never have! Oh well. And I’m more humored than bothered by “targeted” ads that pop for me thanks to prior Google searches.
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I got an email about downloading the Bing app and getting 500 points and double mobile search points for 30 days. I installed it and have used it, but I have not gotten 500 points and am still only able to get 100 mobile search points per day. I am getting double PC search points, at least. Anyone else have success with this?
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@ukedog said in Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion:
@fatwking I occasionally use DuckDuckGo, and would probably do so more if I was in a witness protection program or had a high security profile somewhere. I just use Bing for the rewards (it’s my home page, but I only use it a few minutes each morning).
At this point Microsoft should be aware that I like quickly flashing up news briefs, movie cast members, and dig Amazon gift cards. Beyond that, not so much–well, at least from Bing.
I too value privacy, and don’t participate in social media stuff like Facebook, Twitter, and so on. Never have! Oh well. And I’m more humored than bothered by “targeted” ads that pop for me thanks to prior Google searches.
We, the people, have the power to take back our privacy that these big techs have decimated and blatantly violated. If enough people started using alternatives that work just as well and actually defend our privacy, these tech behemoths (Goog, Amz, Fbook, Msft, etc.) will lose power and will bend to the will of the people. We need to take that power away from them.
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@fatwking said in Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion:
@ukedog said in Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion:
@fatwking I occasionally use DuckDuckGo, and would probably do so more if I was in a witness protection program or had a high security profile somewhere. I just use Bing for the rewards (it’s my home page, but I only use it a few minutes each morning).
At this point Microsoft should be aware that I like quickly flashing up news briefs, movie cast members, and dig Amazon gift cards. Beyond that, not so much–well, at least from Bing.
I too value privacy, and don’t participate in social media stuff like Facebook, Twitter, and so on. Never have! Oh well. And I’m more humored than bothered by “targeted” ads that pop for me thanks to prior Google searches.
We, the people, have the power to take back our privacy that these big techs have decimated and blatantly violated. If enough people started using alternatives that work just as well and actually defend our privacy, these tech behemoths (Goog, Amz, Fbook, Msft, etc.) will lose power and will bend to the will of the people. We need to take that power away from them.
(mod note: this is an off-topic post, but I’m replying to off-topic replies. Thanks UkeDog for the heads up on 300 points a day, it supercharged my amazon redemption for 2 weeks)
Big tech monopolies are similar to landline telephones; it works better if the person on the other end has one, otherwise it doesn’t really work at all.
Facebook especially so because while there will always be a market for niche social media networks, if your friends, family, and long last pals from high school are sharing posts then you’re going to need to facebook to see it - otherwise you end up with a completely public social media site like twitter.
Amazon has its advantages in cloud software and web hosting because of its unparalleled size, and even IT workers get certs in AWS just so they can have transferable skills for their next employer (or to keep their current one).
Microsoft is pretty much regarded as a monopoly. There’s always room for linux and mac.
Google is the closest thing to a consumer-created monopoly. There’s no real reason to use it over other search engines, other than the fact that it just works better than everything else out there. Google Maps and the Google Chrome browser especially so; Microsoft even bases Microsoft Edge on Chromium, the Google Chrome’s software underpinnings.
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@yoregano said in Bing search Microsoft Rewards promotion:
I got an email about downloading the Bing app and getting 500 points and double mobile search points for 30 days. I installed it and have used it, but I have not gotten 500 points and am still only able to get 100 mobile search points per day. I am getting double PC search points, at least. Anyone else have success with this?
I installed it a couple of weeks ago, uninstalled, then reinstalled it for this promotion (even though mobile points are available every day). I’m pretty sure I never got the 500 bonus points.
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@ctujackbauer There’s a pretty long thread on another popular deal site that explains how to get those 500 bonus points from installing the Bing mobile app, where evidently you have to scan the QR code in your email invitation from Microsoft, and then somewhere in the installation process wait for some popup, or some such. It sounds too involved and I didn’t want to bother uninstalling/reinstalling a regularly used app for so few points. But it seems lots of folks are in the same boat, with some successfully getting the 500 points, and others not.
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