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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!
Hi Drew1903, Rohit Yadav and adrianghc,
Thank you very much for your feedback.
First, I'd like to assure everyone that these are not rhetorical questions and we are listening very closely to understand what worked well, and what didn't, in our legacy product, so we can make sure any investments we make in the new Microsoft Edge, are the best they can be.
Moving to Chromium means that some of our legacy features may have to be re-implemented or redesigned. It's not true in every case but it is true in many cases. When a new implementation is required, rather than immediately jump to the identical design from the legacy browser, we'd like to make sure we are implementing full and complete solutions.
The more you can help us understand how you used the legacy features, what you liked about them and where they fell short for you, the better we can be at designing a complete solution.
Thank you for the examples you have provided so far! Please keep the feedback coming!
- Jared
P.S. Thanks Elliot Kirk for posting the original message on my behalf 🙂
JaredB81 thanks a lot for your reply. It is really a good decision to review the features that the people use, & implement only them in the new version of Microsoft Edge...
The "Ask Cortana" should be re-implemented in whole as it used to exist in the old version of Edge. Highlighting a text, & asking Cortana should invoke her, & should present the related info. There can be various use cases, say for example:
1. I want to get the definition of a word, so I highlight the text & choose to ask Cortana, & she presents the definition just like it would on the PC, or mobile app.
2. I want to get any info, so I quickly highlight the text, & ask her, after which she would present the related info.
I think after the search, an option should be included to help us reframe our search in case Cortana isn't able to answer correctly in one go.
As for the position, whether it should be in pane or other portion of the screen, I think it should be in a pane, so that it does not takes you away from the page or the pdf file open.
This feature should be applied to all aspects of the browser like browsing pages, in Immersive reader, & also when a PDF file is open.
In my earlier comment, I mentioned including the quick definition popup while reading books & pdf files. If Cortana is implemented, then I guess there is no need to include that feature.
That's all in my feedback for the "Ask Cortana" feature.
Thanks! 🙂
JaredB81 Elliot_Kirk Talon_38c
Words such as handy, helpful, efficient, time-saving & convenient very much apply to both of these & more/other things.
Add notes & Share: It is appealing to be able to have something within the browser that does all this offers. Whether sharing what you have grabbed, or 'modified or keeping it for yourself for later (Save or OneNote) or printing it, it is a wonderful utility. It's a joy not having go to an outside (the browser) tool or 2 to do the same actions. So nice, too, that if talking w/ someone can share something from a mutual interest page or segment, in real time so quickly and easily, because it's built right into where you are looking. All needed to do so much right at ones fingertips.
Ask Cortana: Same as others are saying... often, without interrupting what you're doing/viewing, can view at the side what may well be enough info... without, actually, going to a search page per se... unless, turns out to necessary to dig further or deeper. But, to take a quick look without leaving the page is great.
Both of these things are used a lot for all they can do & offer because they are so useful & enhance smooth productivity.
Cheers,
Drew- Spoiler
Drew1903 wrote:
Ask Cortana: Same as others are saying... often, without interrupting what you're doing/viewing, can view at the side what may well be enough info... without, actually, going to a search page per se... unless, turns out to necessary to dig further or deeper. But, to take a quick look without leaving the page is great.
if all Cortana integration is gonna bring is to provide us just with a small window to see search results then they better drop it already because things like that are not new, they can be achieved with Google chrome extensions too, so no real advantage against Google chrome.
