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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 ...
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!
Let me back to Internet Explorer, we had something call Accelerator and let say in one website I select address and use accelerator and it shows location in Bing map. I select non-English text and it translate it to English, so I don't have to copy them and open new tab and then go to translator, map or other website and paste it to see it.
Cortana in Microsoft Edge did similar task but it has some limitation. What I want is smart way and let say when I click on address, it shows location inside current page and not new tab , same for weather, translators and so on. It is also good to search name and something in Bing.
Therefore, we need this Cortana feature but with more flexibility of view , so user could select if show it in right side or in mini windows like accelerators in Internet Explorer.
Cortana in Microsoft Edge did similar task but it has some limitation. What I want is smart way and let say when I click on address, it shows location inside current page and not new tab , same for weather, translators and so on. It is also good to search name and something in Bing.
Therefore, we need this Cortana feature but with more flexibility of view , so user could select if show it in right side or in mini windows like accelerators in Internet Explorer.
- Two feature suggestions within Edge.
SMART ASSIST.
1) SMART TABS.
When you're in the middle of using the web (say few minutes into some research you're doing) and you click a new tab. An on-device Cortana-powered page should pop up. Similar to Siri Suggestions within Safari. However, more powerful since it already suggests pages from the web similar to what you have opened in other tabs because chances are that you're looking for something similar. However, if Cortana utilizes a suggestion I already mentioned in a different Reply (Interest Search), this would be powerful! Cortana would suggest articles from multiple sources in a layout similar to the Microsoft Store homepage on Windows 10. With the "Preview" feature, you can expand an article within the "Smart Tab" before fully loading its webpage. If you liked it, click a button within the expanded UI and it would open the full website in the same "Smart Tab", if you don't. Close the expanded preview and find another result. You can ALWAYS bypass this feature by typing whatever you want in the address bar like you would normally do today in a "New Tab".
2) SMART CONVERTER
By noticing you're location (processed on device) and language, Cortana can tell if you prefer the Imperial or Metric system. While reading a recipe that is using the Metric system, Cortana can hover-in you're Edge window with a question "Would you like me to convert units to Imperial?". Since Edge is already reading the website's source code, it can change the text if it needs to. So, if the user clicked yes, Cortana would then convert all Metric units on the website within the tab to Imperial.
INFO CARDS.
When reading online, if you highlight text, a small Cortana icon would animate-in next to it. If you click it, Cortana would expand vertically an Info Card experience on the right side (Latin language websites, on the left for right-to-left language website like Arabic).
The Info Card would be powered by Bing technologies to find relevant information (mostly from Wikipedia like Google cards), pictures, and maps if available. The Info Card would be expandable and resizable and can be dragged around, even outside Edge's window if possible. The "Experience" would allow the user to "read more" of the Wikipedia article within the Info Card itself (or click a button to read in a new tab from source). Same thing with maps and media content found.
