Windows 10: Delivering Personalized Search Experiences through Windows 10 Cortana

Brink · Apr 28, 2016

With Windows 10, we have invested in delivering comprehensive, end-to-end search capabilities that make Windows more personal, intuitive and helpful. The Cortana search box, in the bottom left of the Windows 10 taskbar, allows you to easily search across apps, documents, settings and the Web all with the help of your truly personal digital assistant.

Cortana was designed to work with Microsoft Edge and is powered by Bing. Here are a few examples of how this integrated experience can enable Windows 10 to anticipate your needs, help you complete tasks, and even help you save time and money:

Search for “Pizza Hut” in the Cortana box and, once you’re on the Pizza Hut website in Microsoft Edge, Cortana can show you your closest locations.

Search for “Bluetooth not working” in the Cortana box and Bing gives you a rich video help answer only available on Windows 10 as a Bing search result.

Shopping for a new black dress in Microsoft Edge, do an image search in Bing and then right click a dress to Ask Cortana to get you more information on it.

Search for “Best Buy” in the Cortana box, click through on the top web result to bestbuy.com, and Cortana will offer up coupons to save you money. The list goes on and on.

As we look ahead, we are continuing to invest in these end-to-end personal search experiences and you will begin to see even more benefits from this integration. This includes scenarios like searching “get tickets to Rihanna show” in the Cortana box, where Microsoft Edge opens to Bing, and Cortana finds the best tickets for your preferences and offers to purchase them on your behalf. Or when you search “catch me up on the election” in the Cortana box, Microsoft Edge opens to Bing, and a dynamic reading list is created with the latest election news for your Microsoft Edge reading list.

Protecting the Integrated Search Experience in Windows 10

Unfortunately, as Windows 10 has grown in adoption and usage, we have seen some software programs circumvent the design of Windows 10 and redirect you to search providers that were not designed to work with Cortana. The result is a compromised experience that is less reliable and predictable. The continuity of these types of task completion scenarios is disrupted if Cortana can’t depend on Bing as the search provider and Microsoft Edge as the browser. The only way we can confidently deliver this personalized, end-to-end search experience is through the integration of Cortana, Microsoft Edge and Bing – all designed to do more for you.

Starting today, to ensure we can deliver the integrated search experience designed for Windows 10, Microsoft Edge will be the only browser that will launch when you search from the Cortana box.

Of course, you can continue to use your search engine and browser of choice on Windows 10. They can be accessed and used as you always have. You can easily use our centralized default manager to choose your preferred default program for everything from browsing to email, and you can configure the search default setting in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer, which are available when you directly access those programs.

Our promise to you is that Windows 10 will provide you with great search results and a personalized, reliable search experience through Cortana and Microsoft Edge. We will continue to work hard to provide you with the amazing experience you expect from Windows, while keeping you in control and helping you do great things.
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Source: Delivering Personalized Search Experiences in Windows 10 through Cortana | Windows Experience Blog

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Vidyashree_C · Apr 28, 2016

Can Cortana Launch a website in a web Browser

Hi,

As you have a query regarding the Cortana launching web browser, we would assist you for sure.

Yes the Cortana has an ability to search through the Bing, Edge, using the Cortana voice command, but it would be updating option that the Cortana would seraph for the desired page on Bing as required.

Yes you can open a Web page using Cortana voice command: “To ensure we can deliver the integrated search experience designed for Windows 10.Cortana was designed to work with
Microsoft Edge and is powered by Bing.

We are continuing to invest in these end-to-end personal search experiences and you will begin to see even more benefits from this integration,where Microsoft Edge opens
to Bing, and Cortana finds the best resolution required.

Note: If you say search Bing, Cortana would go to Bing page. Were in if you’re trying to search the setting option for Bing, it would be an optional. Cortana may not find that option directly, we have to assist the Cortana
again to the Bing setting page.

Please visit the below website mentioned, to learn more about Cortana.

What is Cortana?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-what-is-cortana

Personalized search with Cortana:

Delivering Personalized Search Experiences in Windows 10 through Cortana - Windows Experience Blog

I suggest you to leave a short feedback on the issue regarding Cortana search option, so that the Microsoft team would continue to invest the end-to-end personal search experiences.

Please go the below link, and search for the Feedback and suggestion option.

Cortana, Search, and privacy:

Cortana und Datenschutz – Microsoft Datenschutz

“How do I provide feedback and suggestions for improving Search? And does Microsoft really pay attention to my feedback? “

Please revert back to us for more queries regarding windows, we would assist you happily.

Thank you.

Sumit Dhiman2 · Apr 28, 2016

Search will only use Edge

1. Why is Search trying to force edge on me now?

2. How can I make it stop?
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The reason:

Microsoft ends Cortana's default browser work-a-round, restricts results to Edge browser | On MSFT

Blog post:

Delivering Personalized Search Experiences in Windows 10 through Cortana - Windows Experience Blog

Currently there is no workarounds for this unfortunately :|

flybynite · Apr 28, 2016

MS changed Cortana to open only Edge with Bing search. Now we need to find a way to hack it back to reality so we can use Chrome, and Google or whatever your choice is!

Berton · Apr 28, 2016

That's all well and good UNTIL you try it and get this message:

Obviously I am connected to the Internet while posting this so that particular feature defeats its own use.

davidhk · Apr 28, 2016

Microsoft is closing off one of the easiest ways to Google search in Windows 10. The company has announced in a blog post that starting today, it will block the ability to perform third-party searches through the Cortana digital assistant, as part of an effort to maintain an "integrated search experience." The move comes in response to a number of recent workarounds, which used browser extensions or even registry edits to establish Google as the default engine for Cortana searches instead of Bing.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/28/11...tana-bing-edge

hTconeM9user · Apr 28, 2016

I use Edge, Cortana, Bing for searching now
I don't even bother with Google for searching anymore
I find myself those 3 are a lot better and faster than Google
But that is just my take on things

davidhk · Apr 4, 2018

ms changed cortana to open only edge with bing search. Now we need to find a way to hack it back to reality so we can use chrome, and google or whatever your choice is!
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yea !

Windows 10: Delivering Personalized Search Experiences through Windows 10 Cortana

Delivering Personalized Search Experiences through Windows 10 Cortana

Delivering Personalized Search Experiences through Windows 10 Cortana

Delivering Personalized Search Experiences through Windows 10 Cortana

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