….so Microsoft is really paying ? Really ?

Short and sweet answer is Yes.

Once a month I get forwarded mail from friends, which says, if you forward this mail to 10 people then Microsoft will pay you some Dollars. Without thinking twice people are forward this mails to 10 people. They never think that if Microsoft really want to give you money , they need your address and actual name, but no one thinks that, just forward. May be this is charisma of Microsoft….

So how Microsoft is paying now ? Is Bill Gates received all this messages ? or all this “forwared” peoples’ prayers are answered ?

No…answer is Bing !
Microsoft’s latest search engine. Like Google has it’s own meaning, bing has no meaning (Being said that, in Chinese it means disease).
More you search and start your buying process from bing, then you will be eligible for cashback. Is this revolutionary? probably not, fatwallet and similar sites are doing this for long time now they have competition from big shark.

So how this works ?
Assume you want to buy Halloween Costume from Wal-Mart, you have to go to Bing.com and find Wal-Mart and very first time it ask you email address and you will be redirected to Wal-Mart site, so if you purchased $100 and your cash back is 5% then you will received $5 from bing.

Why Microsoft is fighting in search engine site, because Google is now entered into operating system business ? Or this is one area where Microsoft don’t have any footprints ?

What I like about Bing : When I searched Apple,Oracle it shows their customer support# in the search. When I searched ‘UPS tracking" it gives space for tracking number.
Bing keeps history (like browser history) of your search phrase, which is good, so that you can keep track.

Now to intelligence of browser. When I searched for “Dollar” Google gives me information about Dollar currency, and then Dollar rent a car, but as per Bing shows “Dollar Rent a Car” as a best match and then on 2nd place it’s shows Dollar page in Wikipedia. Bing is showing more business listing for word “Dollar” and less listing for “Dollar Currency”, so I think search engine should give more information about “Dollar as a Currency” and not dollar as a word. At- least I am expecting from “intelligent search engine”. If someone is searching for Dollar information from other side of the world, then showing “Dollar rent a car” as a preferred choice is really wrong choice. If you are reading this from outside the us, please search word “Dollar” in bing and post the details.

I decided that if I want to buy, I will use Bing otherwise Google is enough.