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MicrosoftIntroducing sidebar search in Microsoft Edge
mayusuf Is this where we leave feedback?
I really missed this functionality. Back when it said "Ask Cortana" I was hoping we'd see it as system-wide feature.
FEEDBACK I don't see is having an easier way to open it. At one time MS Word let you CTRL+Double-click (?) a word to open "Smart Lookup". Something similar would be nice here.
Bing lets you click a magnifying glass when you highlight a word. Do something similar would help discoverability of the feature.
- In Edge on Android, long pressing a word or phrase will open a context menu with Share and Search as options. This works well and is easily discovered. Something as intuitive (and constant) would be nice on the desktop.
Bonus points if doing so on an address opens a map.
With the sidebar search pane open (controlled by the current hot keys) I wouldn't mind seeing the search sidebar update automatically when selecting a other word or phrase.
Unlike at least one other review, I like how the page with shrinks to make room for this feature.
Yes, there needs to be a better close button.
Visually it would be nice to be separated from the web page itself. An obvious solution would be for the results to display in something like dark mode, but I can see people not liking that. A good challenge for good designer, and I know there are some over there. 
mayusufrjpaulsen Thank you for using sidebar search and for your feedback! We have recently added a shortcut for sidebar search - Ctrl+Shift+E on Windows and Cmd+Shift+E on Mac.
We are looking into ways to make sidebar search invocation faster. You can leave feedback here or via the Edge feedback tool.
