Microsoft has finally brought Bing Rewards to Windows Phone 8.1 users

Microsoft has finally brought its Bing Rewards program to Windows Phone, letting users earn points toward gift cards and other benefits by searching the Web. The program had previously been available on the desktop, and launched for Android and iOS in January. Until now, Windows Phone users had been left out. As Windows Phone Central points out, Windows Phone 8.1 is now listed on the Bing Rewards for mobile page. And sure enough, a couple of Bing searches on a Lumia 1520 yielded one credit.

A few weeks ago we reported that users were receiving mobile credits for Bing searches on theirWindows Phone 8.1 devices. At the time, Bing Rewards still had Windows Phone listed as “coming soon” on their site, but starting a few days ago that has lifted as Windows Phone 8.1 is now listed on their support page. Bing Rewards is a program from Microsoft that rewards you for using Bing search. The more you use it, the more points you can collect. Those points can then be used to redeem gifts from the site, including Amazon.com gift cards, OneDrive extra storage, entering contests and more. There were two issues though with Bing Rewards. For one, it didn’t work on Windows Phone (yet it did on iOS and Android via their apps) and two, it’s not available in a lot of non-US regions. The former issue is fixed, though we’re still yet to see Rewards expanded elsewhere. Launched back in 2010, Bing Rewards is a neat little promotion that hopefully helps some users switch from Google to the better Bing experience.