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To make a web search about anything, be it a video, a picture or anything, a number of web search engines are available. But just imagine a web search engine which pays you in the form of number of rewards for using it, it will attract you. Won’t it? You will without a doubt make use of that web engine to make your web searches and also earn rewards.
One such web search engine which pays you for making searches is Bing!!!
Bing is a web search engine which is owned and handled by the Microsoft. It was launched by Microsoft in the year 2010. A number of search services are provided to the client on this web search engine platform. You can search for videos, images, map, live searches and so many other things. People also use it for shopping or for watching news.
In some cases, Bing is considered to be a better web search engine when compared to Google. The number of auto complete suggestions given by Bing to the users is more than those given by Google. Also the video search of Bing is a lot better than that of Google. It gives a better experience to the users.
Another good thing about Bing is that it is in support of the web safety standards which have come up recently only. This web search engine is one of the first search engines to support this web safety standard. It is known as safe preference.
According to this safety standard, only that content is displayed on the internet which is considered to be safe by the websites. Not all the content is displayed.
Bing has increased its United States search engine market share in the recent times. It has witnessed a great jump with in a year. It was at 16.5% in the month of December in the year 2012. But in the year 2013, in the month of December, the market share of Bing was at 18.3%.
In the search market, Bing is at a really good position. This position has been given to Bing by the Microsoft. And it is also said that very soon Bing will compete with Google in the search market share. It is believed that Bing will give a tough competition in times to come.
But the reason why most people use this web search engine is because it offers rewards to its users.
For example like a credit card gives rewards to its users, similarly Bing also offers some rewards. The rewards offered by Bing are in the form of points of Microsoft which one can earn while making searches. These points can also be earned while taking quizzes online.
A number of ways with which you can make money with the help of Bing are:
- Inviting more people to Bing will help you earn credit points or rewards. For every invitation that you make, you earn 100 points. So you should refer Bing to your friends and family members to earn points. But there is a limit to the points or rewards you can earn from this method. You can not earn more than 500 points from this way.
- You can earn credit points by making use of Bing for mobile searches. If you make use of Bing for making mobile searches, you can earn credit points. For every two mobile searches you make by using Bing, you end up earning 1 credit point. But again there is a limit to the points you can earn with this method. You cannot earn more than 10 points in a day with the mobile searches on Bing.
- There is a dash board which is known as the Bing rewards dash board. In that dash board, a number of tasks are available for the user. For every task, there is certain number of points offered to the user. So you can also earn points by completing tasks in the Bing rewards dash board.
The credits that you are earning are tracked through a credit counter on your Browser which can be any like Internet explorer, Chrome, Safari. This credit counter appears in the top right corner of any Bing.com page that you have visited.
Another very important thing that is to be kept in mind is that the reward points are not the same for the people of different levels. Bing rewards offers more points and incentives to the people who belong to a higher level of membership.
There are three different levels for the members. Those levels are the members, silver level and the gold level. Member is the first tier and is the entry level for the new users. Minimum credit points of 200 are to be collected for the user to move to the next level which is the silver level.
Moving to the silver level happens only when the users have completed the “welcome to redeem tour”, redeems the first rewards and 200 points are accumulated.
With this promotion to the next level, the members are rewarded with 50 bonus points when they enter the Silver level. Then once the members have earned 750 lifetime credits, they can move to the Gold level.
This level is the highest level for the Bing rewards. The members need to perform minimum of 150 searches on Bing in a month. But these searches have to be qualifying searches if the members want to move on to the next level.
One of the best things about this level is that the members get discounts of up to 10% for their rewards when they redeem their points. As said, the users belonging to member’s level get the least amount of incentives and the users belonging to the gold level get the most amounts of incentives and perks.
To get on to higher level quickly and to get more rewards with every search, it is recommended to make use of this web search engine on a daily basis.
But the main point is what you can do with the points that you have earned. How and where can you use these points? The points that you have earned can be used for shopping, donating or for winning.
Not surprisingly, many of the options for the Bing rewards are the products of the Microsoft. These options also include products from the other brands of the Microsoft. This is because Bing is owned and operated by Microsoft.
The various Bing rewards options available to you which are related to Microsoft are subscriptions to Microsoft drive, Premium Microsoft outlook. You are also offered Skype credits or the membership for the Xbox.
The various options for which you can get these Bing rewards exchanged are:
- Points/miles for airlines
- Hotel loyalty programs
- Prints and photo books from Shutterfly
- Gift cards for Amazon, apple bee’s, burger king, domino’s pizzas, iTunes, Starbucks and many other businesses.
Each and every item which is available in the Bing rewards shop list, is linked with a page. On that page, the product is described which is offered in exchange of the Bing reward. Along with that a photo of the product is given. Also the price of the product is shown in rewards. It shows how many Bing reward points are needed to buy that product.
There are three different prices for every product which is available in the list of Bing rewards shopping. The different prices are the price for the members belonging to the member level, silver level and the gold level. Since the members of the Gold level are given the most amounts of incentives and rewards, the price of the product will be the lowest for them.
The members of the gold level will also get a discount on the price of the product. The discount will be of 10%. It will be available each time they redeem their points. Then the price for the members of the silver level will come and the members of the member level will have to give maximum number of points for a particular product.
You can also donate your points that you have earned using Bing for a good cause. You can donate your points to a school of your own choice. Once the school receives 30000 Bing reward points, that school gets a new shiny 32 GB Tablet.
After donating a tablet to a particular school, you can also check that whether that school has received that tablet in real or not. This can be checked by visiting the link bing.com/findyourschool. This will help you know that whether your efforts have paid off in real or not or was it just a fraud.
If you plan to donate this on your own, you might take a life time. But if 60 parents participate in the Bing rewards on a daily basis, it will only take a month to help a school receive this tablet. To earn tablets for an entire class room, it will take only a year’s time. But provided 125 parents participate in the Bing rewards.
Other options in which you can donate the points that you have earned are on redemption of 100 points $1 is donated for the boys and girls club in America. Money is also donated to kids in Need foundation or Teach for America.
But keep one thing in mind, this option of Bing rewards is only available for the people in the United States. So you cannot select a school or a foundation for donation which is in some other country. The foundation or the institution that you have selected to donate for has to be in the United States only.
Another way with which you can make use of your points is for winning some really cool prizes which are in the list. But the problem is that the lists of items which are available under this option are pretty less.
But one point to be kept in mind in regard of these points is that this facility of earning Bing reward points is available only for the people who live in the United States. It is not available for the people in other part of the world. So it makes it pretty obvious, that when the residents of the United States are travelling abroad, they can not make use of these points. They can not get them redeemed in other parts of the world.
No doubt about the fact that it is a very attractive offer for increasing the count of users for the web search engine. Literally, Bing is bribing its user to use its service. But it definitely is a loyalty program. There is no denial to the fact that you actually earn points while making search on the Bing.
If you think that you can make money out of these reward points and can get these points redeemed for money, then no my friend. You are mistaken here. This option is really cool for winning some nice prizes or getting some cool offers for airlines or restaurants or hotels. But it is definitely not available for earning money.
Earning rewards is no rocket science with the use of Bing. It has made it pretty simple for its users to earn points and get them redeemed. It can be used to earn points whether you are using a desktop or a mobile phone. If you are a regular user of Bing, it will definitely turn out to be loyal to you. It will help you earn a lot of rewards.
So if some attractive offers, prizes excite you. You get excited to earn them or you feel like going some good for the society, Bing is an excellent platform to earn points and get them redeemed in this way. But repeating again, it cannot be redeemed for cash amount!!!
So, ready to give it a shot? It is guaranteed that it will not hurt you. Just set a goal of earning certain reward points and daily and win your prize. It’s that simple!!
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