Microsoft is bringing in a Bing update that will let ou test your internet connection directly from the search engine. With Google, you need an alternate website. It looks like Microsoft will do whatever it takes to make Bing more attractive than Google’s magnanimous search engine.
Speed Test Tool on Bing Might Lure In More Users
The update gives you a live reading of your internet connection, which is important information for many users globally. Needless to say, it’s a unique feature among web browser platforms. Typing ‘internet speed test’ into the search engine will prompt a widget that will directly display internet speed readings. It also offers an overview of the user’s IP address, latency and download and upload speeds.
The company has a similar ‘Network Speed Test’ app for Windows, but this update makes it more widespread. The update has only been found on the web, but it’ll surely make its way to mobile apps and the mobile Bing site. Getting a speed test is not like looking up just anything, and Microsoft is reducing the number of steps that get you to the information you really want to know.
Microsoft Brings in Emoji Search and Snake to Get People Off Google Chrome
Microsoft is also one-upping Google by making Bing the first to support emoji search. In a time like this, this is a huge move. Bing is even incorporating the game Snake onto is platform. The corporation is obviously trying really hard to get users away from Google Chrome and inspire them to use Bing.
Will this work? Most likely not. It does, however, show that Microsoft is taking its search engine very seriously. More updates will come in and make Bing more competitive. It could one day come to replace Internet Explorer, or even become the combination of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer to give Microsoft a signature web browser. Seeing as Bing has gotten good reviews as a standalone web platform and as an app, there’s no reason why this couldn’t do Microsoft well. 2016 could be a year full of surprises for the corporation, and it could get back into the race for the best web browser.
