After an explosive launch in terms of deployment speed and news, the past few weeks have been a bit quieter when it comes to Bing. It is true that the waiting list for access to the chatbot officially ended a few weeks ago, but if we look at the relevant news, it seems that the waters are going down a little calmer now. But of course, they continue to decline because Microsoft is not willing to give up the advantageous position it currently maintains against Google when it comes to AI-based services.

It’s understandable, because as we’ve mentioned more than once and you probably noticed it a few months ago, the pace of the first weeks was hectic, and that’s why difficult to sustain in the medium and long termplus, with that speed, Microsoft was exposing itself to reports that Bing was no longer newsworthy, losing much of the media focus it knew how to maintain in the early weeks.

Now, despite this slowdown, we’ve known for some time that the technical teams have been working on some long-awaited features. The most anticipated is undoubtedly the conversation history, something we found out a few months ago was on the priority list of features that should arrive sooner rather than later, and it is also known that smartphones are in the sights of those in Redmondand that therefore we can expect more news about her

Well, it is precisely in this last sense, that of smartphones, that we find one of the most remarkable innovations of the Redmond chatbot, and that, according to what we can read on their blog, Microsoft has started rolling out a widget for Bing Shortcuts for Android and iOSand it is expected to reach all users during this week, we can understand it as an update of the existing one.

The currently available widget provides direct access to the search engine and can be used to access Bing, but when this new plugin is available, it will be possible to enter questions to the Bing chatbot directly from it. In addition, the microphone button can also be used to voice queries to the chatbot instead of the search engine.

As you probably remember, a few weeks ago we told you that Google was working on a widget that would bring Android to the Bard, which is a pretty smart move, but it looks like it’s outdone Microsoft again. This, when added to the fact that the deployment of its chatbot has not yet reached a common European space, puts Bing again in a position of clear advantage and again compromises the situation of Google.