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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!
There are reasons to say that they don't integrate it into Cortana, but it has shown to be useful in different aspects, such as Suggesting products similar to the one you're looking for (I know there are extensions that help, but using that integrated would be better). Suggesting to see the lyrics while listening to a song I know I didn't have many options, but it would be great if you could strengthen these suggestions and add others. This way it would be more productive and more interactive to search for a product or just a hobby. That's my opinion and I'm in favor of integrating Cortana to the new Edge, or at least that there is an option to activate it and depending on each one of you use it or not.
- Yeah I miss Cortana's ability that used to identify song names and lyrics, now both of those features are removed from Windows 10 and Edge legacy. i hope they are brought back in Cortana 2 (beta)
I think the "whats that tune" feature was using the Kazaa backend service - MS probably didn't want to pay the license fee. I still have the icon on my Lumia's search screen, but it hasn't worked for years
In fact here is another revolutionary and controversial idea:
Outside our developer community, Bing doesnt really feature as a search engine - everyone knows Google - its been verbed. Folk who haven't played Halo, or had a dinosaur phone (Lumia) have never heard of Cortana.
So, rename / splice "Bing" to Cortana - one unified search engine / AI, big marketing push, use some of the Cortana renders from the various Halo movielets - "Forward unto dawn" etc. Combine them with Donovan Brown's ads for Microsoft AI, walking round ancient ruins / on safari with Cortana on one shoulder acting as guide.
Hey I should be in Marketing. I need to check my meds.
