Posts Tagged ‘Bing’

My first Bing cashback!

April 7, 2010

At first I was suspicious of Bing cash back program.  We all remember those horrible experience with mail-in rebates that seems to never be filled out correctly and so denied.  Bing cash back program is the exact opposite.  All you really need is to have an account with Bing that will link when you use Bing to search for the item you are looking to buy.  When you find the item there is a gold coin next to the link and if you purchase using the link you get your cash back.  Cash back range from 1% to 20%, depending on the store or item.  You can even get up to 8% back from ebay.  You just have to use the buy it now function and pay with your Paypal account.  I really think Bing cash back is the easiest program to get cash back, better than MIR.  One thing you do have to remember is that the cash back has a 60 day waiting period, in case you decide to return the product.  So far I am loving this cash back program because it is so simple to use.  Almost a no brainer if you are an online shopper.

Opting out of personalized advertising

February 21, 2010

Web advertising is a necessary evil.  Ninety-nine percent of online contents are “free”.  You need not to shell out a credit card or pay for services like email, news, games and online storage.  However, to support all this “free” service web advertising is the main revenue for website owners.  Microsoft advertising displays ad that are relevant to your Bing search history and places them along your search queries.  You can opt out of the personalized ads through this link.  Once you complete this form MS will place a cookie on your PC to disable tracking.  If you delete this cookie the opt out setting is also removed and you will have to redo the opt out process.

However, this only eliminate “personalized” advertising.  It does not eliminate advertising at all.  The ads will still be there based on your current search and not on past searches.  All this really does is eliminate the tracking cookie that Microsoft uses to keep a history of your searches.


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