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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! 🙂