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Ask Cortana / Ask Bing - Discussion
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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.
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LegacyOfherot wrote: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.
more than 1 Billions people are using Windows 10, so Cortana is not unknown.
MSN,Live,Bing, all 3 words have been integrated in each other for years.
the difference is that google adds their prefix "google" to almost all of their products. google keep, google asssistance, google hangout, google whatever.
Microsoft has different style. "Word" , "OneNote" , "Skype" , "Bing" , "Cortana".
there is no problem with that. google thinks if they don't shove word "google" into everyone's throat, it means they lose.
HotCakeX , I said this was controversial. I agree there are a lot of Windows 10 machines out there (and a large number of older versions too, Win 7 refuses to go quietly into the night).
If you watch the news, whenever they talk about personal assistants, they quote Siri and Alexa.
Whenever they mention searching the interweb - its "I Googled for it".
Walk into a bar and ask anyone over 40 about Cortana, you'll get a blank look - as for explaining the difference between asking Bing and asking Cortana - I'm not sure I could.
My pitch was that Microsoft don't have a clear message, and I think having one point of interaction - Cortana - would be simpler, and a great marketing meme - "Ask Cortana" - you needn't just get get a list of vaguely relevant web sites, complete with their GDPR "You cant do anything useful here unless you allow our cookies", She might actually give useful facts and figures.
On my Win 10 desktop - I click on the Cortana button and say "Tell me about the Tower of London". I get a link to the ToL's web site, a wikipedia entry, some other places to visit. I want her to TELL ME ABOUT the tower.
If I'm there (She knows I'm there because I have to have Location services turned on) She could tell me when it was built, and as I walk around, look through the camera on the Surface (not on my Lumia, obviously) and tell me about the various buildings. "Cortana, where is the bar?" and a map comes up.
BTW I hate Google too - In my view they are the new Evil Empire. I'm forming the Rebel Alliance. Come to the light side, we have cookies.