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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!

winiston2212

Brass Contributor

Apr 21, 2020

I loved the Ask Cortana feature. I mostly used it to quickly find the definition of a word I didn't know, which was quite often. I also used it for just about everything. If I needed to find out where a referenced location was, I would use "Ask Cortana". The ability to pin it to the side of the page was also very useful. The only thing I would change about it is the look. It would be great to have dark mode added, and it would also be nice if it looked more like Windows Search web results. That would make it more consistent and sleek. I'm really excited to see this feature in the future. The "search the for..." feature just isn't as convenient.