Ask Cortana / Ask Bing - Discussion

[Elliot Kirk]

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 click on an image and get a result from Cortana / Bing in a side panel, without leaving the page you are browsing.

We hear you and from your feedback we understand you would like similar contextual search functionality in a way that does not pull you out of your browsing flow.

We are investigating our ability to add this to the next version of Microsoft Edge and we would like to understand what makes this feature useful for you. 

How did you use this feature?  If you ever attempted to use Ask Cortana / Ask Bing and couldn’t get the answer you were looking for, what steps did you take, if any, to get the answer you were looking for?  

What aspects of the Ask Cortana experience do you like or appreciate?  What improvements would you like to see?

Please let us know, either in the comments below or by using the Send-A-Smile feedback. 

Thanks – Jared Brown and the Microsoft Edge Search Team

[#2]

So we're at least getting the search from sidebar portion of Ask Cortana, which is the Cortana feature I used most.

 https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21262098/microsoft-edge-sidebar-search-pinterest-integration-feat... 

[#3 · Accepted solution]

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/...

Thanks!

[#4]

Is Ask Cortana the only "Cortana" (of course it's really just a Bing search) feature that will be integrated into Chromium Edge?

[#5]

This is like the Sidebar Search feature. I think that unless you give some good new features (like maybe the option to read aloud the selection and open it in Cortana, using it), Sidebar Search would do just fine.