search credits stopped

[ro901]

Is anybody else having problem with search credits stopped? I got 2 cents but nothing further for search credits today.

[ro901]

finally, it's back working. have no idea what happened.

[bessie1111]

I had a problem in the past.  Just stopped searching and resumed later.  Somehow it got stalled, but I haven't had any troubles lately.

[hvnlydevil]

I notice occasionally mine will have the same issue. It won't show in the toolbar-but it does credit in the account.

[rbudovec1947]

I had my valid searches interrupted with the invalid search message again this morning after receiving 3 cents. At that point, the counter keeping track of the number of valid searches stalled as well. After a series of invalid search messages for the next five or six searches I made, the counter finally resumed and I received my other 2 cents after 8 valid searches in a row.

My guess is I need to slow down a bit and not rush the searches. It's a little difficult to determine why searches are considered invalid at times, but overall the new search rewards works fairly well. It's not that difficult to make the extra nickel a day if you are careful and take your time.

[hipriestess4u]

I use the credit bar never checked to see if I get paid for my searches, heck I don't get paid for the surveys

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[thenewprod]

This has happened to me as well, just wait a bit and it will resume, most likely an error of some sort.

[rbudovec1947]

Search credits have frozen for me as of 2/05/12. I have 22 cents for 91 searches so far this month and continue to get the 'invalid search' message no matter what I do.    Anyone else experiencing this issue?

[TOMAS7]

I just had this problem for the first time today and it kind of irritated me, all of my searches are for separate things that I am interested in, but if when I read the list that comes up and there is a better search term I put that in so I can keep going and narrowing down to what I am truly interested in. That is how good research is done. But apparently not according the complicated algotrythms being used to prevent cheating. So I figured OK I will stop for a while and came back a few hours later did two more fresh searches and even had cleared my cookies etc. and BAM got the same message. Something smells in Denmark to me. Think I will uninstall this "not so wonderful" new toolbar and give it a rest to see if that helps. It really p's me off though because I was aiming to maximize my earnings this month and had done so so far every day, now no perfect record and I blame it on FC and techno glitches, we deserve at least a fair shot to earn the 5 cents a day, and if FC found out that it was costing them too much then they should have cut it back to a limit that was within their budget along with an announcement, not just start messing with us. And I was about ready to try and start getting some referrals through twitter and possibly a few other means as well. Not now. FC will have to restart proving themselves worthy again in my book. I don't like cheaters and sneaks and this is what is feels like to me. Shame shame shame.

[deathx88]

My searches stopped working for me for about about a week now. I don't know what happened, but i had over 500 valid searches, so i know i'm doing it right. I just sent in a support ticket, hopefully an admin can reset my toolbar or do something to fix it, this is the second time this has happened to me now.

[thenewprod]

I've had a lot of similar issues. Search credits are sketchy.

[deathx88]

I just received a response from my support ticket.

The company most likely "froze" your searches due to you searching too fast, trying to bypass the system, etc. After a while it will be corrected and you will be allowed to search again and earn money.

So i guess the company that does the searches can just freeze it on you. I think the searching too fast is a lame excuse to freeze my searches. But then they told me it will eventaully correct it self after a while. I would like to know how long i have to wait to be able to start searching again.