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Bing brings the world’s knowledge to your Office documents

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Imagine your child is writing a report about Abraham Lincoln, they just started and so far they’ve typed: “Lincoln was the 16th president of United States. He was born in…” but then realize they’ve forgotten when Honest Abe was born.

Ordinarily, they would have to leave Word, open a browser window, search for “Lincoln” – all of which takes time and breaks their work flow. Worse, their search results would have many other “Lincolns” including the car, movie and town in Nebraska. The browser search obviously doesn’t know their intent.

Well, now you have a solution. 

Earlier this week, Bing and Office introduced Insights for Office, a cool new way to find the information you need right within the documents you are creating.

We encourage you to go ahead and try a free version right here – just click the previous link, choose the New blank document template, paste the above quoted text into the blank document, then select the text, right click and choose “Insights” to see this in action.

Bing indexes and stores entity data from around the web representing people, places and things. Insights for Office uses Bing’s ability to index the world’s knowledge, its machine learned relevance models along with text analytics capabilities to semantically understand the most important content in the user’s document and return the most relevant results.

Intrigued? Learn more about this cool new capability here or by clicking on the image below.

ML Blog Team

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Those of you who didn't get the Insights command on right click - did you select some text first, before the right click?
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2014
    Fantastic, this what I was exactly thinking it in my mind for the people who create/scrap content from search engine. It would be useful for people who write content for a blog or an assignment or presentation for a school etc. #GoodJob
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2014
    For some reason, on my right click "insights" is not appearing.. suggest to demo using video. thanks.
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2014
    The same for me here: no "Insights" appearing...
  • Anonymous
    December 15, 2014
    It doesn't show-up - whether text is selected or not. Just the Standard context menu without "Insights..."
  • Anonymous
    December 23, 2014
    The functionality works when I open Word Online from my personal OneDrive, but not from my OneDrive for Business which is integrated with SharePoint.