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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!
Ask Cortana wasn't the only Cortana feature that was great about Edge--it was the fact that Cortana could pop up in the URL bar and help with other things too. It was super useful to see her provide better deals when doing online shopping or providing more news articles, and I'd like to see that be reimplemented along with Ask Cortana.
Better yet, I'd like to see that feature be expanded to other features. I don't know exactly how she could be implemented, but I think a potentially great idea would be if Cortana could automatically suggest or create Collections based on sites you visit--the shopping feature, for example, could be expanded to not only suggest better deals, but to group them all in a Collection automatically so you can view them later. The same feature could be used for her suggestion of similar news articles. Collections could be a wonderful tool for expanding Cortana's abilities within Edge.
Also, one of the features I like most about Cortana was that she appeared in a sidebar that didn't take you out of your workflow. This was great about the Edge experience overall, and I'd love to see that implemented back in with Favorites, History, and Downloads.
