Anyone else having trouble with the Swagbucks search engine?

@dragon54u (31636)
United States
December 30, 2017 1:49pm CST
I'm no longer getting pages of results but only one page. And those results consist of strictly commercial sites or other search engines I can click on. And I can't get any results at all in "images". Sometimes I get no results at all and it doesn't even tell me "no results". I contacted SB support and got an acknowledgment but nothing further. I do notice that there is something new on the page at the right, a "safe search filter" that I hadn't noticed before. It is set on "moderate" and has one other setting, which is "strict". Where did that come from?! Is that something new to Swagbucks?! Or have I just never noticed it before? Any suggestions?
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snowy
@snowy22315 (169865)
• United States
30 Dec 17
my swag search bar is not coming up automatically.
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dragon54u
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
30 Dec 17
I just use my address bar at the top of the browser because I have my search set automatically to SB. But just to be sure, I went to the SB site and tried their search bar. Still the same lousy stuff. With a business worth that much, you would think they would respond to inquiries like mine in a more timely manner!
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snowy
@snowy22315 (169865)
• United States
30 Dec 17
@dragon54u I do too,,,but it sees like I only get points when I go directly to the SB page. It didn't used to be like that.
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Marlina
@marlina (154166)
• Canada
10 Mar 18
Are you still having trouble with the search on Swagbucks? I had some yesterday, but seems to be okay today. @dragon54u
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dragon54u
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
12 Mar 18
It fixed itself after a week or so. Contacting them was useless, I got a form letter in return that did not even address the problem. But it's working now and I've had some decent earnings from it!
Hope
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
31 Dec 17
I don't use it and so cannot offer any information. I hope someone else can help.
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Anastasia
@Angela150 (928)
• London, England
30 Dec 17
I have not been noticing. I usually just keep searching random terms until I get rewarded swagbucks!
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dragon54u
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
30 Dec 17
I have found--before the search engine went wonky--that asking a question gets more rewards than not. Asking about material things like "what are the most popular shoes in London?" will usually get you a reward. But then, one time I meant to type "n" in the search bar of my browser for my news site and accidentally typed "nt" and I got 24 swagbucks!
Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (43065)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Jan 18
Could this change have something to do with your anti-virus/Internet security software?
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meowhisper
@meowch (2220)
• United States
31 Dec 17
I use my cell phone to do some GPT. I wonder if I or works on my phone if I use the swagbucks search engine. Otherwise I need my laptop.
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Lenore Plassman
@sallypup (57812)
• Centralia, Washington
30 Dec 17
I just know that I got kicked off their gold surveys cause I wasn't consistent- bologny. I've done my best and that's all I know. I do the other surveys still but most of the time am not accepted.
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