#BlogEveryDay – Bing’s payment system

Ever since its inception, Microsoft has found one way or another to pay it’s users for searching on Bing.  Today I’d like to talk about the “another” way, which is when using Bing for 30 searches gets you 15 rewards points.  Here are all the rewards you can spend your hard earned rewards points on. And I do mean hard earned. Bing is just so unnatural to me after using Google for so many years, even if Bing steals Google’s search results.

From something as simple as restricting my search parameters to only one month back, rather than the past year, to the distance down the page pictures start showing up, to even the overly elaborate default front page I find myself asking “Why?” Why not just go all the way and straight up copy Google if you’re going to copy them.  Look at how poorly Playstation Allstars Battle Royale did when it tried to copy Super Smash Brothers and left out the key mechanic of “ringing people out”.

I guess I shouldn’t complain, because they’re giving me something for nothing and in the end, if running www.freefoodatdrexel.com taught me anything, it’s that you never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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