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shikamaru317 on 14 December 2023
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NobleTeam360 said:
ice said:

hmmm weird, I managed to do both of my mobile and web in like 15 minutes lol I just wait like 5sec between each one

Yeah, mine was like that for the past week or so. Now it's only letting me search a few times for points and then I have to wait awhile (I assume the 15 minutes) before I get points again. 

It's still working for me, have yet to see the 15 minute timer. Here is what is working for me, try it and see if it works for you:

For starters, I'm using Chrome as my browser, no idea if that matters or not, maybe they have only implemented the 15 minute timer on Edge or something, maybe not. Secondly, when I click on a trending search, I wait and watch the upper right corner of the Bing webpage. Up in the right corner you will see how many Microsoft Reward points you have as well as the Logo for Microsoft Rewards, a ribbon, I have highlighted that here:

When the ribbon icon is partially white like in that image you wait, don't click the next trending search or you will get no points for it and possibly cause that 15 minute lockout timer by clicking too fast through the trending searches (possible anti-bot protection they implemented?). You want to wait until you see that Microsoft Rewards ribbon logo turn almost fully blue and see the 5 points for the search get added to your rewards point total. I have circled what the ribbon looks like when it turns almost fully blue and the points get registered here:

No idea if it will work for anyone but me, but so far I have yet to get hit by the 15 minute timer even though it is supposedly live in the US as of the beginning of this week, 4 days of searching now without hitting the 15 minute timer even once. I've noticed that occasionally I won't get the points for a search even after waiting for the Ribbon Icon to turn blue, but usually the very next search after that one will award the points once the ribbon changes to blue. When I get a chain of more than 2 in a row not awarding points even after waiting for the ribbon icon to turn blue, I will wait a few minutes (not a full 15) and try again, and then it usually starts awarding points again.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 14 December 2023