Using Bing I just got 100 MS points in less than a week!

[Slimebeast]

Soleron said:

Slimebeast said:

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Could you elaborate on point two (2). Especially the "a change in what is shown to you on shopping websites". How can they be connected to my search engine habits? I mean, if I go to let's say online game retailers or whatever, can my experience there be different depending on my Bing or Google search habits?

There was an article I'm trying to find a few months back, on a shop showing you cheaper or more expensive items upfront depending on what it knows about you. If MS was selling this data to third parties for marketing (which someone said you can opt out of), and this technique becomes mainstream, it may change what is shown to you.

I'm trying to imagine why MS is paying you for your searches. If not for your information, are they literally just paying people to use them instead of Google?

Yeah, you're definitely on the right track. All that information of search habits is valuable to MS in a mutlitude of ways that you gave examples of.

Now, off topic but could you remind me of a thing I asked u before. YouTube money making. What was the number of views per video that you said was required to make a decent living off of YouTube? Was it 10K per day or could you survive on less views?