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Bing searches stopped rewarding for subsequent searches before reaching cap
I have made plenty of searches on Bing today. However, it only partially rewarded my initial search efforts, and further searches did not reward any points. For example, I'm currently capped at 20 o...
Here is another update. I've managed to regain Level 2 status, and I am still capped at 30 points, even though I have done plenty of searches on Bing today. I have also attempted Bing searches on my mobile phone and the points are not showing up on my Microsoft Rewards.
This is getting an unpleasant feeling, because I KNOW my search history is being used, and I intentionally allow my search data to be used in exchange for Microsoft Rewards, but now I am deeply unincentivized to continue with Bing unless this bug, or "feature", is fixed.
andrewlee1982
Hi there Andrew,
I've also been pondering about this 'thing' for a while and have finally come to the issue at hand:
I believe Microsoft has implemented a new feature where there is a cool down for searches, so you cannot just simply spam it like before, rather you have to wait for 3-5 seconds I believe. I have tested this and this is correct, you just need to wait a few seconds(be generous) and search again.
Hope this helps 🙂- it still does not work, I even tried waiting 10 seconds. It seems like its a bug affecting certain people. One of my other accounts works perfectly fine in terms of getting these points with the 3-5 second cool down...
