Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

[Dirty Turtles]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

I have never and will never use Bing. I don't see myself using any search engine that isn't a specialty engine indefinitely. It's just far too easy to type what I'm looking for in my address bar and google it.

[mrclutch]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

i got about $40-50 in MS Points from the Bing Bar/Bing Rewards program.

I've earned a little less than that but I'll take the free stuff and the SAME RESULTS you get from Google. I'm sorry it's the same. I know someone is going to say it isn't but they are wrong.

[Hooe]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

How does the Bing rewards program work? Is it still open? Any catches?

[ODogg]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

I've used other search engines by mistake but only vaguely heard of Bing. My g/fs brother had to tell me what it was. If you want to beat Google you have to offer something that they don't and as far as I know they don't offer any reason to switch.

[murph17]

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How does the Bing rewards program work? Is it still open? Any catches?

the catch is the payouts SUCK now.

the payouts used to be pretty good
- 2 "pts" for up to 15 searches a day (30 pts/day)
- plus 3-4 bonus specific searches for 10-12 pts each/day

and for a little while you could double-dip. there is an IE Bing Toolbar you can use, and then they rolled out a in-browser version for Firefox/Chrome. so you could get all those daily pts twice.

payouts now is like 1pt for up to 8 searches a day, and bonus pts are like 5. and they fixed double-dipping a while ago.

i think you need 500pts for a 400MSP card.

edit: oh and here's a big one...you used to start with 250 pts, now it's 20 apparently.

for lots more details, check here
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=273587

[Steel5]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

the catch is the payouts SUCK now.

the payouts used to be pretty good
- 2 "pts" for up to 15 searches a day (30 pts/day)
- plus 3-4 bonus specific searches for 10-12 pts each/day

and for a little while you could double-dip. there is an IE Bing Toolbar you can use, and then they rolled out a in-browser version for Firefox/Chrome. so you could get all those daily pts twice.

payouts now is like 1pt for up to 8 searches a day, and bonus pts are like 5. and they fixed double-dipping a while ago.

i think you need 500pts for a 400MSP card.

edit: oh and here's a big one...you used to start with 250 pts, now it's 20 apparently.

for lots more details, check here
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=273587

No need for the Bing toolbar in IE anymore either. You can just use the in-browser version.

[WTF]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

So you just get points for searching? No catch? So you can potentially get free stuff, just for searching using Bing, for things you'd be searching for anyway?

[p2xgamers]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

So you just get points for searching? No catch? So you can potentially get free stuff, just for searching using Bing, for things you'd be searching for anyway?

Yep just by searching.

[Steel5]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

So you just get points for searching? No catch? So you can potentially get free stuff, just for searching using Bing, for things you'd be searching for anyway?

Yep just by searching.

Yeah it's pretty sweet.

I always cash in 500 points for 400MS points. Between that and the xbox live rewards program, I rarely have to purchase MS points to buy stuff on Xbox Live anymore.

[UncleMo]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

B.I.N.G.

Broken
Internets
Need
Google

[BlueNGold]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

All I use is Bing. I hate google. To me bing brings up better results especially with pictures.


Do you really care where I sent this from?

This must be useful at "certain times".

[bkfount]

Re: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since launch

5 billion is pocket change to start up a modern competitive search engine against google, and MS has rapidly established Bing as a credible number 2 option. It was always going to be pretty tough for MS to convert people already set in the habit of using Google, but there's always new people coming to computers that can be influenced as long as there's solid alternatives.

MS is actually lucky Yahoo made the worse decision in the history of internet business and turned down their $44 billion dollar buyout offer a few years ago.