Did you know that if you don’t use Bing as your search engine, you’re losing money? Surely you read this with the tone of voice of a tobacco seller, but wait, we’re serious here and I’ll tell you how I save a lot of money on Amazon and Xbox throughout the year ‘casting’ five minutes a day.
Google is the most popular search engine. It is the one we use the most and, in addition, the search engine for certain elements, such as that for images, seems to me to be the best. However, with Bing I often get the results I want and also make money in the process. As? Well, with Microsoft Rewards, and I’ll teach you how to use it.
What is Microsoft Rewards?
Let’s start with the first. Although we have already explained it on occasion, Rewards is a Microsoft program that allows us to earn points. We achieve these points by completing different objectives on our Xbox by completing achievements, performing actions or simply playing Game Pass titles, but they can also be achieved on a daily basis, without having the console.
By searching in the browser or completing a series of daily tasks, you can get enough points which you can then redeem for raffles such as an Xbox Series S, Microsoft gift cards, El Corte Inglés, Xbox Game Ultimate or Amazon pass.
In addition to free challenges, there are other options to earn significantly more points. In this case, rent or buy movies from the Microsoft store
Points are earned by completing surveys, doing research, taking quizzes, or simply clicking on topics to see information. For example, by clicking on “French macaroon recipes”, they took me to these recipes and, on top of that, I earned 10 points. It doesn’t seem like much, but in the end it all adds up…
If you redeem streaks, you get extra points every few days to add a bonus to what you already get daily for completing the goals and, at the end, In my case, I haven’t bought the Game Pass Ultimate for a long time because I get it with these Rewards points.
In the browser, it’s as easy as going to this page, but now we’ll show you how to make it even easier: from your mobile.
The easiest: switch to Bing as your browser in Chrome
The easiest way is to use the apps you already have. On an Android, Google Chrome will be installed, so let’s start there. I’m sure you already know this, but to access Chrome’s settings, you need to click on the three dots at the top right of the browser and go to “Settings”.
Once done, the first option that appears in the menu is to change the search engine. You click and you will see several recommended search engines. You switch to Bing…and that’s it.
Now all we have to do is go to the search engine and open it with the three bands that are in the upper left corner (like when we wanted to open Chrome’s settings, wow) and check that your Microsoft account is well informed.
And nothing, to start adding points.
You can also install Edge
But beware, you can do something else and try Microsoft Edge. Yes, I know, you started using it with Windows 10 and you still have a more than bitter memory.
You are not the only one and, in fact, Microsoft itself gave up and ended up renovating Edge, betting on Chromium -the engine on which Google Chrome is based- and making its browser very fast, stable, secure and, in addition, compatible with Chrome extensions.
Chromium-based Edge is NOTHING like the previous version and works great on desktop, mobile, and even Xbox
It’s great on mobile (several team members use it on both Android and iOS and we’re happy with it) and you already have Bing integrated as a search engine, so just enter your Microsoft credentials and it will count the rewards in your account and that’s it.
I like this method because you have the option of having two browsers: Chrome in case you want to continue using it, and Edge in case the only thing you want to get out of it is Bing Rewards points.
And my favorite, the Bing app
Finally, and what I personally use, is the Bing app. It’s pretty customizable and I like that it has some sort of “discover” built in, widgets, the new AI integration (you have to join the waitlist, but you can enable full ChatGPT if you join the beta) and direct links to apps like weather or news and Microsoft’s office suite.
In the app the performance is very smooth and you get the points almost unknowingly
What I love about this app is that you can complete daily Bing challenges in a very comfortable way.. It’s a smooth app, the design is good and it’s very visual, so you can complete the ‘challenges’ while having a coffee, waiting for public transport or walking down the street.
Also, I like that it’s really easy to redeem the prizes because since it’s an app and not a browser window, the integration between the different menus is perfect.
You can clearly see the digital items you can redeem your points for
The trick to earning Microsoft Rewards points effortlessly
The truth is that with a little use of your mobile phone or the search engine on your desktop, you immediately take on the challenge of daily searches that give you an extra effortless but if what you want is 100% every day you always have extensions like Automate Yout Bing Searches -you can find it in this link-.
Our compañeros de Genbeta la uncover hace unos días y con un minuto funcionando, esta extensión realiza a script que consigue los puntos diarios para que n’est tengas que esforzar ni un poco en realizar búsquedas y, así, seguir con el buscador de Google en tu day after day.
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