Currently ranked the 16th largest website in the world by Quantcast1, you may need to ask yourself exactly why a company so large as Microsoft would need to include an incentive for people to use their products. Wouldn't you expect this to be a quick promotion to get people to get away from relying on Google's products? You would thing so, but Microsoft has claimed that the service will be available even longer than the originally-estimated December 31st, 2011 end date!
So how do you earn? First, you've since been able to use any popular browser (it used to only be available to Internet Explorer users). From there, install the Bing Search bar, and you're set!
There's no luck involved when it comes to earning; you're paid the same basic way every time. You're paid 250points for signing up, and you're paid ~5points for completing each offers (normally clicking a Microsoft-related promotion), and of course searching!
Promotions such as "Search and earn. Earn 1 credit per 2 Bing searches up to 6 a day until June 4." are frequent, but when these types of offers aren't running, you can expect to receive 1 point for each 5 searches, and you could earn a maximum of 5 points/day.
The things that make this search-rewards site different are important. For one, there's no CAPTCHA requirements to be found. Therefore, you can naturally search throughout the day, no different than you normally would. Off you go!
Finally, what's your actual incentive for joining other than earning prizes? You can redeem points for things like a 3 month Hulu+ membership (should take ~2.5months of searching), a $5 Amazon.com giftcard (~2months of searching), or even a month of Xbox Live Gold (~5 months of searching). All in all, there are some great prizes to save up for.
In the end, I'd recommend signing up for an account as quickly as possible. If nothing more, spend 2-3minutes per day saving up for another month's worth of Xbox Live.
1 (http://www.quantcast.com/bing.com/)
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