Ask Cortana / Ask Bing - Discussion

This is like the Sidebar Search feature. I think that unless you give some good new features (like maybe the option to read aloud the selection and open it in Cortana, using it), Sidebar Search would do just fine.

I did send a feedback suggestion regarding Cortana. I'll repost it here so the community can expand and get creative on ways to integrate Cortana within the new Edge!

TAILORED EDGE UI.
If I said "Hey Cortana," and she popped out within Edge's window instead of the taskbar, that would be a convenient and clean way to involve her more while browsing the web. A small smart box that hovers within the tab itself would be great. Able to be dragged around within the Edge window, or outside its borders on top of the desktop for instance.

INTEREST SEARCH. Let's take a look at the problem first.
Sometimes, you'd be reading an article online, let's say I'm reading an article regarding Miley Cyrus on Buzzfeed.com (like the majority of Millennials and Gen Zs). When I finished reading the article, intriguing questions might pop in my head. Things like "What happened next?", "What happened before?", "I wonder if she recovered from that injury."
Today, you'd open a new tab and search for Miley Cyrus and include other keywords regarding the injury (she didn't have an injury, it's just an example). And try to sort things out and find out what happened next or before.

How can Cortana solve this? That's where Interest Search comes in.
Imagine instead of opening a new tab, you'd say "Hey Cortana, what's up with Miley?"... imagine the possibilities. I'll explain in detail below, but here's the basic explanation first;

Cortana would lookup the web using Bing technologies for articles similar to the one you're reading when gave the voice command. It will pull up the results in a clean side bar (remember the UI I mentioned above? It would expand vertically into a "Smart Card") And give you the results it found on multiple sources, sorting by relevance and Date-Match*

*It looks at the date of the published article and tries to find articles published within the same date window.

How can Cortana find similar articles? How Interest Search works?
1) Cortana would analyze the title of the article you're reading for keywords. E.g. (Miley Cyrus injured her leg in a skiing accident.) Cortana would ignore words like "the" and "her" and even "a". So the keywords extracted here are Miley + Cyrus + injured + leg + skiing + accident.
2) Since most websites nowadays include who published the article and when was it published, Cortana would take note of the date and create a "Search Filter" for use later in the upcoming steps.
3) It would take results from Step 01, and find matches within the article itself.
4) When matches are found in Step 03, Cortana would look into the sentences each match-found for additional keywords. When it reaches a comma or a full stop, Cortana would stop extending the sentence. Again, ignoring words like "the". But, this time, emphasize on Capital letter words in the middle of sentences (like names and places), creating another "Search Filter" for use in addition to the date in Step 02.
5) Cortana would have sentences of keywords after Step 04. Cortana would then try to find similarities within those sentences by using an actual dictionary. If two words from two different sentences have common synonyms (the same exact meaning), then Cortana would pick one of them and drop the Other Keyword (referred later as Dropped Keywords).
6) After Step 05, Cortana would now have "Search Keywords". She would take those "Search Keywords" and combine them Once with the "Search Filter" it created in Step 04. (E.g. Miley +Cyrus + Paris + France + skiing + injury). This is referred to as "Interest Phrase"
7) Cortana would take the "Dropped Keywords" and create another "Interest Phrase". Now, Cortana has TWO "Interest Phrases"
😎 Cortana would apply the "Search Filter" it created in Step 02 (the Publishing Date) and consider your voice command to both "Interest Phrases". (e.g. "Hey Cortana, what's up with Miley?", by noticing "What's Up" in your command, Cortana would look for results AFTER the Publishing Date from Step 02.)
9) Each "Interest Phrase" would bring up certain results. Cortana would combine duplicate results and sort the final result according to Date-Match inside its Edge UI Smart Card.

Let me back to Internet Explorer, we had something call Accelerator and let say in one website I select address and use accelerator and it shows location in Bing map. I select non-English text and it translate it to English, so I don't have to copy them and open new tab and then go to translator, map or other website and paste it to see it.

Cortana in Microsoft Edge did similar task but it has some limitation. What I want is smart way and let say when I click on address, it shows location inside current page and not new tab , same for weather, translators and so on. It is also good to search name and something in Bing.

Therefore, we need this Cortana feature but with more flexibility of view , so user could select if show it in right side or in mini windows like accelerators in Internet Explorer.