Bing may be building a speed test widget within search results

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Microsoft looks to be continuing to enhance their Bing search engine. We already know you can bring up direct movie info, showtimes, do math and more. Now, at least, one report suggest that Microsoft is integrating a speed test to measure your bandwidth within search results.

A reader of the site Kabir tweeted a few images displaying widget like speed test app within Bing both on the web and their phone (in this case an iPhone). We were unable to reproduce the results on our devices when typing 'speed test' into Bing. However, like many new features, this could be either rolling out or simply A/B testing by Microsoft.

There is no word on whether this uses SpeedTest.net as the source or is an extension of Microsoft's Network Speed Test app available for Windows PC. Either way, if accurate, it sure would be a handy tool for mobile and PC users out there.

Let us know if it works for you in comments.

Thanks, Kabir, for the tip

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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007, when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and watches. He has been reviewing laptops since 2015 and is particularly fond of 2-in-1 convertibles, ARM processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.