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Former Employee

Nov 19, 2019

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Ask Cortana / Ask Bing - Discussion

Hello Insiders! You have told us that you really want the Ask Cortana / Ask Bing feature in our next version of Microsoft Edge. In the current version of Microsoft Edge, you can select text or ...

mayusuf
May 20, 2020
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!

viniciusbezerra

Iron Contributor

Dec 03, 2019

I agree, the term Cortana makes no sense in this feature, they could switch to something like "what is this" or "quick search".

Drew1903

Silver Contributor

Dec 04, 2019

viniciusbezerra

Vini,

That is a rather neat idea.

I'll suggest it's a marketing thing to keep Cortana in Users' thoughts & awareness. May help bring them to all the powerful assistance it can bring to their lives, all the talents & tools it offers (including search).

NB: Search & Cortana are, also, now separated. Search is all well & good, but, Cortana is that & a whole lot more (for people). Ergo, there is a desire to have people thinking of & using Cotana (for their benifit).

Cheers,
Drew

HotCakeX
MVP
Dec 04, 2019
Looks like Edge developers are only considering Cortana to do a sidebar search in the browser, very limited ability to be honest, I hope they expand it and make the whole browser smart with the Cortana AI.