Why am I not getting rewards points for searches?

Anonymous
2023-12-13T03:48:31+00:00

I was searching for my daily rewards points on my phone and computer. For my computer I was rewarded for 9 searches, and it stopped granting points after that and on mobile only 2 searches granted points to my account. I tried multiple browsers and devices and searched a variety of searches. I would like to know if this is a bug or if I need to fix something on my end.

Microsoft Edge | Browser extensions | Windows 11

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Anonymous
2023-12-16T17:22:44+00:00

They changed everything lately. No more bonus as everyone has mentioned. Now, I just read on MSN that they are requiring a 3-search/15minutes capacity... they are calling it a "cooldown". So, you can only get 15 points per 15 mintues.... so much for Bing... I'll go back to Google Search for all my research... Bing isn't worth it anymore. It'll take forever to get any rewards so it's not worth it for a sub-par search engine. As of October, you could possibly max everything out in searches and activities and MAYBE get a $10 gift card in a month's time... now it'll take about twice that time... and you have to work on it throughout the day instead of an intense hour or two. I don't sit on a computer all day... only for a couple hours with work while I do product research... I'll search hundreds of websites in a couple hours... so all I could get from Microsoft Rewards is maybe 100 points... the rest of the 50 allowed per day in searches is unachievable as I'm not on all day.... so, forget it Bing, sorry, you lost a customer with this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-22T04:40:28+00:00

    I have also found that depends on what browser you are using for the 150 point PC search you can defeat the "3 searches per 15 min." by going to Bing.com and refreshing your browser before each click on a tile.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-22T00:44:50+00:00

    100% AGREE.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-21T17:02:08+00:00

    I also just completed a week of searches but did NOT get a puzzle piece for the 1000 point bonus.

    I hate to complain about a FREE site, but it is seriously broken and frustrating!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-21T06:12:38+00:00

    thanks for posting this. I was experiencing the same issue and now I know that they are trying to screw us. There is no reason for that 3 search/15 min. limitation other than to do just that-limit the points that they are giving out.

    Also, I noticed that instead of 10 points for "special searches", they are only giving 1-2 points per special search.

    I have been wasting a lot of time trying to figure this out. considering that you have to do 30-5 point searches to get the 150 max points on your PC, you have to spread that out into 10 3 search (15 point) sessions, or 150 minutes, or 2.5 hours to do your searches instead of 20-30 minutes, and that is if you log in faithfully every 15 minutes and do the searches.

    2.5 hours for 150 points (which is worth only 15 cents). 15 cents divided by 2.5 equals 6 cents per hour. just not worth the time.

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