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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!
These commands would be useful to implement in Cortana to make Edge smart and control it by voice
Search the web
Returns results from the default search engine.
(Example)
Search for hiking in Denver
Look up recipes for fish tacos
Search my Gmail for tickets to Hamilton
Look up The Book Thief on GoodReads
Search CSS grid on MDN
Go to the New York Times
Show me the 49ers schedule
Go to the Health section of the BBC
Who created breaking bad?
Who won the World Series game last night?
How deep is the Marianas Trench?
Play Green Day on Spotify
Play yesterday's Daily Show
Play Old Town Road
Play (to control active tab)
Mute (all tabs)
Pause
Next
Read this page
Show me weather in Flagstaff, Arizona
What's the temperature in San Antonio?
Translate this webpage (to English)
How do you say 'what time is it' in Spanish?
Find the nearest sushi on maps
How long will it take to get to Springfield?
How do I get to the hardware store?
Set a timer for 5 minutes.
Find calendar tab
Close tab
Pin tab
Duplicate tab
Move tab to a new window
Open new tab
Open new window
Reload this page
Save as pdf
Open my single sign on bookmark
Copy (copies whatever is selected)
Copy link
Copy title
Copy Markdown link (copies [title](url))
Copy rich link (a link you can paste into docs.google.com etc.)
Copy screenshot
Copy full page screenshot
Paste
Say "open new york times", then "Give that the name news"
news (will open nytimes.com)
Give the last 3 the name news
Remove the nickname news
That link, Mozilla is providing voices for lots of languages, Not just English.
if Cortana is going to be implemented into Edge, it needs to support lots of languages other than English.