July 30, 2010 was the final day for Microsoft’s cashback search engine program, Bing Cashback. I was sad to see it go because using Bing resulted in many great deals for me. The best deal I scored using Bing was a brand new Playstation 3 on eBay that I received $102.50 in cashback.

I’m assuming that the program was not very profitable for Microsoft and likely didn’t result in any market share gains against the likes of Google. Considering that Microsoft is sitting on a cash pile approaching $40 BILLION, it would have been nice to continue rewarding online shoppers with huge cashback offers.

Some great alternatives to Bing Cashback include:

Big Crumbs

Mr. Rebates

Ebates

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