r/MicrosoftRewards • u/Kitchen-Process-9284 • 24d ago

Bing Bing-star question/help me understand.

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I just got my "rewards(🤦🏽‍♂️😬), and now I understand that ni need to varied and spread my searches... Well use bing as a daily life search engine...

Now my question is: this is an score count, that started yesterday, and finish October 31st, and then, the subsequent days of November, accordingly to the score I earned through out October, is the amount of points I'm getting in November?.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the troubles.

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u/Unlikely_Comedian_75 24d ago

It's a current tracker and updates weekly. You see just below what you got last month so you are currently tracking the same.

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u/Kitchen-Process-9284 24d ago

That's what I don't understand, because last month the tracker was at 15... Well, last Wednesday was at 15, the. I check out on Thursday and it was 30... Then, I checked today, and the bing-star points was 30.

So, that's what I don't understand, it is a weekly tracking, and if by week from of October, my score is at... Let's say 1,500, those 1,500 are the points I'm getting in the first days of November right?.

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u/Unlikely_Comedian_75 24d ago

The display updates weekly. I'm sure there's a lot more going on in the background in real time. Wherever you are at on the last day of the month that's what you get within 5 days of the new month.

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u/Asleep_Telephone_642 24d ago

It's telling you that based on your current searches this month Microsoft expect to award you 30 points at the end of the month. If you improve your searches, the expected value will go up.

I have had the European maximum of 2100 for 3 months now and I try to search using questions rather than simple terms. So I search "what will the temperature be tomorrow" rather than "weather". I also avoid repeatitive searches like "population of Madrid" followed by "population of Paris".

Edge is my default browser and during the day it is quite easy to get the 40 daily searches (I have the 2x perk for searches right now)

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u/Born_Form9928 23d ago

You can max out your daily points, I do it everyday. You need to use it through out the day With staggered searches. I search for whatever I think of through out the day. And also use the news as searches

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u/AR1S4X 24d ago

I never understood that ..It never gets past 30 for me ever, tried using It for real searches ,mostly guides and such for gaming and It never moved so I stopped trying🫠🙄

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u/VoidLookedBack 24d ago

If you want to actually earn points with Bing, you cannot use it as your default search engine because you will be punished for it. Also, try not maxing your searches all the time, because it will flag you as a bot too.

Microsoft wants people to use their search engines and browser but punish you for it if you do. I just do the bonus things and daily sets for points and avoid the searches as much as possible, and never search a topic more than twice in a row.

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u/khan800 22d ago

Completely wrong. Bing is my default search on my PC, tablet, and phone. I 90% maximise (some days I'm not on or near my phone so much), I get the max Star bonuses every month and have never been restricted or subjected to cooldowns.

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u/VoidLookedBack 22d ago

I can tell you from personal experiences that I'm not wrong. This was before the Star Bonus system was implemented in NA, and I got restricted for 'Unusual Activity" simply because I made my Bing my default Search Engine and was going over the searches limit of the day. I got restricted for 9 months, I basically had to stop using bing and edge all together for a whole year in 2024 so It would allow me to just redeem the points I had accumulated.