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Bing Beats Google to Support Emoji Search

Oct 29, 2014

3D SmileyAre you a fan of emojis? For those of you still in the dark ages, emojis are pictures that were originally used to represent words or feelings in Japanese electronic messages. Anyone with children old enough to use a smart phone is very aware of the fact that emoji use has gone mainstream around the world.

Earlier this week, the Bing blog announced that the search engine now supports emoji search. A post on Search Engine Watch points out that Yahoo and Yelp are both “emoji-searchable” but Google is not.

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