Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains

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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