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Re:Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo ... by blueskin_ on Thursday January 08, 2015 @06:59AM (#8856006)
At one point, MS were paying people to use Bing. Their loss was probably in a large part due to marketing it aggressively (see: that horrendous "Bing it" product placement in whetever TV show it was), while DuckDuckGo/startpage spread mostly by word of mouth, and Yahoo maintains market share via inertia (and shady third party referral deals that cause malware to often change your search engine to yahoo, but that's another discussion...).
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Re:Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo ... by Amezarak on Thursday January 08, 2015 @07:41AM (#8856122)
They still are. Sign in with a Microsoft or Facebook account and you accumulate Bing points which can then be redeemed for Amazon gift cards or various other things.

This is actually the main reason I use Bing; if search engines are going to track me I might as well get paid for it. The search results are usually as good or better than Google; YMMV. It's very rare I have to resort to a Google search and when I do it's usually just as bad.

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Re:Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo ... by hollerith on Thursday January 08, 2015 @08:43AM (#8856293)
How many dollars of gift-card credit do you receive in a year?
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Re:Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo ... by Amezarak on Thursday January 08, 2015 @09:20AM (#8856432)
Roughly $60/year. You can do better but I don't go out of my way to do the extra searches (I don't change my workflow for it), and I sometimes throw the points away on relatively useless things like sweepstakes and Skype subscriptions.
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Re:Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo ... by freehunter on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:07AM (#8856662)
I use Bing because they pay me as well. I don't go for the money, I typically use my point on gift-like things. For example, for the holidays I used them on the photos printed on metal or glass, which is worth more than the $5 gift card I could have gotten instead. I also do a lot of sweepstakes entries; I've never won, but meh it's free anyway.
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