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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!

MaryB

Iron Contributor

Mar 02, 2020

Elliot KirkI use both 'Search the web for' and 'ask Cortana about' all the time

I use ask Cortana when I need a quick definition or extra info about something without leaving the page, when the quck info will be enough and I don't need to explore further, for info about where an image comes from or as a quick way of seeing an image full size in its own tab.

I use 'search the web for' when I want to explore a topic in more depth and expect to open multiple links and go to multiple page and so want a persistent list of search results