A mini version of Pinterest and other small ones will be added to Microsoft Edge

Microsoft launches in its browser what is very similar to the miniversion Pinterest. The browser collections window will soon display a bar of recommended content based on the themes you've saved.

As a person who enjoys Edge almost since the release of the browser, I'm a little ashamed to admit that I never knew much about collections (at least until now). So if you're like me, here's a summary. Collections allow you to store and organize web pages, snippets of text and images that you find on the Internet. You can create a collection, say, for recipes to place links to all your favorite dishes, or even a collection for graphic design that contains inspiring images for your future work. The new inspiration channel will show content related to these recent search queries.

Although the collections already support integration with Pinterest, which allows you to view offers from the site, as well as export your collections to the boards Pinterest, I think this new inspiration channel will look like a mini version Pinterest. This feature has not yet been released (Microsoft says she is "soon"), but as the vice president explains Microsoft Liat Ben-Zur, it will appear in a pop-up window next to the folders that contain your various collections. Ben-Zur adds that Microsoft is also working on the ability to share their collections.

In addition to the inspiration channel, Edge gets a few other minor but useful updates. Now, if you hover over the image and video, you will see two icons: one will save the item in your collection, and the other will open a visual search that will search for the selected image or video.

Starting this month, Edge will also allow you to follow certain content creators on YouTube, TikTok or Bilibili. When the feature appears, you can click the Subscribe icon in the address bar on the author's video, and you'll see his recent downloads on the new Subscriptions tab in the Collections pop-up window. Microsoft says that "for starters" deploys this feature on only a few websites.

Source: The Verge