Bing Rewards is a program from Microsoft to encourage people to use Bing.
You can earn 15 points a day, and it takes 475 points to earn $5 at Amazon. So you can earn $55/year at Amazon using it.
There is a bot that will do the searching for you, so you just have to click it once a day.
Microsoft allows up to 5 accounts per household. So that's up to $275/year at Amazon for almost no work.
If you use the link above, I get 200 bonus points for referring you. I run 4 accounts (1 for each family member in the house). I have 4 different browser profiles setup in Chrome on my server. Each morning, I just click the bot button on each, and I'm done. < 30s of work. You can occasionally get bonus points for things.
Oh, and you get 200 points per referral, so if you refer the other 3 household members, that's 600 points -> 6 Amazon $, once they each hit 200 points.
Paul wrote:I signed up, but I'll never remember to use the bot each day.
Task Manager, dude.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I remembered to run the automatic search thing today, then left the room.
The last word it looked up was "assholes" so I had all these censored/blurred images on my screen when I returned.
Do they email you a code or is it automatically applied to your Amazon accounts?
I checked my Hotmail and Bing has been sending me newsletters.
I clicked on Hotmail/Outlook.com's unsubscribe option and had a chuckle when a pop up said that Bing had not provided unsubscribe information to Microsoft's email client.
(Bing had an unsubscribe link though)
My PC did over 1000 searches while I went out to dinner, and I earned zero points.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Checking the bot site, they say that only the web searches seem to be counting, so if it searches for asshole images or maps then you don't get credit for those.
My PC did over 1000 searches while I went out to dinner, and I earned zero points.
Works fine for me. But there's a maximum of 15 points a day (although one of my accounts allows 30 points per day), 2 searches per point.
And, often the page with the bot one won't refresh, so I keep an extra tab of the Bing Rewards Dashboard up, and that will refresh and have the right # of points.
My PC did over 1000 searches while I went out to dinner, and I earned zero points.
I was using Firefox. Switched to IE, and the points started flowing.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
GORDON wrote:So, basically bing is scamming their advertisers out of money with false clicks that no one is looking at?
Not quite. It's scamming Bing. Since you are just doing searches, the advertisers are not paying anything.
About 14 years ago there was some "we pay you to click" thing with some advertising site.... I did the sme thing. Using ez-macros I was macroing websurfing overnight on 3 systems/3 acounts. For 3 months I was making about $25 per system before it all shut down, probably because of people like me scamming.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Microsoft has a history of throwing money at things. A few years ago they did a promotion for Bing search where you could get up to 40% off eBay items. I made about $2k off of it, buying and reselling stuff. It was awesome.
