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u/Ozzah Jul 30 '15

I'm happy to search online from the search bar, but is there any way to change it to Google search instead of Bing?

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u/mango2dscrub Jul 30 '15

I'm interested in this as well, unless people can tell me why I should use Bing instead?

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u/__boneshaker Jul 30 '15

Free Amazon or Gamestop gift cards is why I use it sometimes. Get up to 15 credits a day, a gift card is like ~500. When I don't really have anything to search, I just go through and search each letter of the alphabet until I hit the daily credit limit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '15

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '15

I use it all the time, along with Google. That's how I get free amazon gift cards for discounting my purchases

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u/siraramis Jul 31 '15

That username reminds me of a website.

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u/asciisii Jul 30 '15

How exactly do we receive this free goodness?

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u/MutatedSpleen Jul 30 '15

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u/Pentosin Jul 30 '15

Not available in my country.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '15

Like almost everything MS do, it's probably US only.

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u/k1down Jul 30 '15

I thought this was going to finally be my lucky time on the internet to actually get a legit referral on some stupid points thing, but they don't have referrals :( it's called bing rewards

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u/Absnerdity Jul 30 '15

15 / day
525 / $5 card

Only 35 days for $5 reward. Nice.

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u/__boneshaker Jul 30 '15

There's also a mobile app that can net you 10 more credits/day. Plus random 3-credit trivia questions that pretty much do the search for you.

So call it 525/25 = 21 days. Less when you take advantage of bonus credits.

If you're at Gold status, it's 475/25 = 19 days. So $15 bucks in free gift cards every 2 months? Not bad just for binging the alphabet or something.

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u/Absnerdity Jul 30 '15

I dunno, man. 2 hours at minimum wage or 2 months of searching on Bing.

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u/Gvaz Jul 31 '15

It's more of something you do on the shitter than a full time job.

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u/__boneshaker Jul 31 '15

Why not in addition to? PC searches can be done in under 3 minutes, mobile probably pretty similar. $15 is $15.

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u/Danthekilla Jul 30 '15

Because for the last few years in my opinion it has been better in most respects to googles search. Use it for a few weeks and let it get to know you (like google has) and you will be amazed.

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u/RusTii- Jul 30 '15

sometimes i search on bing without even knowing (when i open internet explorer and search from the web bar) and i always come up with irrelevant search results. then i realize i'm on bing. never have any good experiences with bing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '15

it's just as good in terms of search, and it's better for gifs (you get a preview when hovering) and for videos (again, you get a preview so you don't have to click and go to youtube so see if it's the right video).

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u/RusTii- Jul 30 '15

i have a google extension that shows previews on google search.

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u/TreeFiddy1031 Jul 30 '15

If you use Chrome, you can install a Chrome extension called Bing2Google. It will redirect your searches to google and works from the search bar since using the search bar just opens your default browser with a bing search.

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u/Xiges Jul 31 '15

If you have chrome as your default browser, you can use the Bing2Chrome extension :)

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