Microsoft starts bringing Bing search into Office

Microsoft is beginning to integrate its Bing search technology into Office, starting with Word Online, company officials announced on December 10. Microsoft is calling the new embedded search capability "Insights for Office." Microsoft is rolling out the capability worldwide (everywhere where Bing is available) starting Wednesday. The rollout should be complete within the next few days, officials said.

Users don't need to do anything to get the new capability; it will just be added to Word Online automatically. The new "intelligent search experience," as Microsoft officials are calling this, isn't ad supported. It's free.
In Word Online, the Webified version of Word that is usable via a variety of browsers, there will be an inline box that allows users to specify for what they want to search (obtain an "insight" in Microsoft parlance). Alternatively, users can opt to right click on a highlighted word or phrase to trigger a search result right inside the document. Those insights might be a Bing-curated entity cards or might be Web-search results from Bing, depending on the word or phrase selected.