A program that grants points for using Bing search, which users can redeem for gift cards, sweepstakes entries, or charitable donations.
true. they could also find out other ways of end the bot problem
there is no solution. microsoft is forcing us to perform "legitimate searches" for unique information (as they say) and then wait for more than .... xxx minutes. microsoft also enforces "a day" is in a 24 hour period from either when starting or when complete, not at 00:01 am. Needless to say, an hour previously generated 100 points (20 searches) via cell phone and 150 points (30 searches) via pc or a total of 250 points in a 24 hour period. Now it takes an unknown amount of searches that don't get credit and takes upwards of 12 hours to achieve same points.
Microsoft is gathering what data? from these searches. these no value.
Why have TRENDING on BING articles that may or may not yield points, but are considered BOT generated searches. These TRENDING articles are what microsoft is promoting for news and the inadvertent ADS links generate them $$$$