Microsoft is offering cash back for shoppers using their Live Search to find products: http://search.live.com/cashback/howToUse

So you sign up for the service. Then you use their search to find products and you collect credit that you can turn into money. The credit range seems to vary from 2-30 percent, depending on the product and vendors I imagine. You can’t get the credit for 60 days, which makes sense and covers them from people buying and returning stuff.

I don’t buy a lot online so I don’t know if I’m going to get much of a chance to test it out. I know that Microsoft’s search engine has not achieved the market share it wanted and having purchased ads on it, I can tell you it didn’t have great appeal to advertisers. So something had to happen.

Maybe this will take off, maybe not – but there you go if you buy a lot online, here’s a chance to make/save some money.