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Ask Cortana / Ask Bing - Discussion
Hello Insiders!
Thank you so much for your feedback. We are excited to announce sidebar search - the first step in our evolution of contextual search in the new Microsoft Edge.
You can find more details about sidebar search in this post - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/introducing-sidebar-search-in-microsoft-edge/m-p/1406242
Thanks!
Elliot Kirk
Seems like rhetorical question or questions, Elliot. We use it A LOT to ascertain info about something, whilst we are doing whatever on a particular page that we like not leaving to grab a wee piece of info... if we want more then, we can go from Cortana to Bing. It's a great feature, same as other currently existing Edge features we want kept! Having a brief panel instead of leaving the page is, also, brilliant. Ellipsis stuff in Edge C should be the same, as it is, currently, with Edge.
All this why & what for or how is it used every time we have to say, "Hey, another something we like, use & want kept is missing" feels like a silly waste of time. By now, it is clear what we want, ie what, already, exists. The items are used as they can be used, as they were designed & intended to be used. (DUH)... Taking time over all that, it still, comes down to VERY simply... need to leave Edge features alone & INTACT! We should not have to be asking & begging for everything, in the first place. And then, on top of that having spell out the obvious... if A LOT of people didn't like, want & use the stuff, the ways & reasons the stuff was meant to be used, they wouldn't be pleading for the stuff... just put the stuff in without taking time, wasting time to make us talk about the obvious over & over, again. Time's a wasting!!
And put Share up on the toolbar beside Add notes. Put things right, put things the way they are currently loved & supposed to be!
Cheers,
Drew
- I don't think the same Edge classic features should be shipped to the new Edge, they need certain adjustments, improvements and so on.
Edge classic's Cortana integration was very limited. the new Cortana 2 (Beta) didn't exist 5 years ago when Microsoft integrated Cortana into Edge classic, so the new Cortana must mean something, more abilities, more features and tighter integration.
something that puts Edge insider ahead of Google chrome. It may be clear what YOU want but you shouldn't speak for everyone else. The fact that you and others like a feature and use it a lot does not mean that others do, that new users of Edge would, and that Microsoft should invest any resources into re-implementing it. Sometimes you are in a niche with your preferences. That is why I think it's absolutely right for the Edge team to evaluate each feature - this provides the chance to both discontinue features that are not used enough (and focus on new, possibly better features in the process) or perhaps even identify some shortcomings of the feature, so that when it comes back, it can be even better.
Personally, I thought the sidebar with search results was a very nice feature for quick glances without needing to open a new tab. It's not a necessity for me but I think I'd like it if it came back.
