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Microsoft Cancels Bing Cashback Program

Posted by timothy on from the it-couldn't-last dept.

pjfontillas writes "Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Online Audience Business Group, recently announced, 'One of the principles we have here at Bing is to constantly experiment and learn. We do this to ensure we are keeping pace with new social and technology trends, and can continue to deliver great value for our customers and advertisers. As part of this "test-and-learn" mentality, we will be retiring the Bing cashback feature, which means that the last day you can earn cashback will be July 30, 2010.' From the look of the comments, Microsoft has at least 35 saddened users. eWeek does a follow-up attempting to explain the situation in more detail."

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  1. slashdot - worse then fox news by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Troll

    on the topic of MS, this website puts more spin on stories then fox news talking about obama.

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    1. Re:slashdot - worse then fox news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      What are you and Microsloth fuckbuddies? Defending your fuckbuddy, you little faggot? Here's a beer you can cry in. Don't like it? Find another website, bitch. Don't forget to eat a dick on your way out the door.

  2. You call it "Bing" by inode_buddha · · Score: 0, Troll

    We call it "Bung"

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  3. And no one cared by macbiv · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anyone here use bing as their primary search engine? or even at all? The times I've used it I got useless results and just ended up at google anyways. What do you guys use it for?

  4. Re:Bing by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, just like they had to pay Major League Baseball, the American Presidential Inaugural Committee, and the 2008 DNC to use Silverlight*.

    Makes me wonder why Microsoft don't just throw that money at legislators to pass a law which requires Americans to use Microsoft Software. Makes a lot more sense given America's political climate.

    * Fortunately, MLB realized the folley of their ways and dropped Silverlight shortly afterward. The other two examples were only one-time events...but to be fair, there were plenty of ways to view the latter two in Flash as well.