Bing Wants You To Search In Emoji With New Emoji Keyboard

Can't get enough of those emojis? Bing is testing a virtual emoji keyboard to facilitate your emoji searches.

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Bing is testing a new virtual keyboard added on to the Bing search bar to enable searchers to search by emoji.

As you know, Bing is one of the few search engines that actually lets you search by Emoji characters. But to enable more searchers to use the emoji search, Bing seems to be testing a virtual emoji keyboard.

Rubén Gómez discovered it and documented how to force your browser to trigger the virtual keyboard. He also shared a video of it in action.

Here is a screen shot of the emoji keyboard in Bing:

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Here is the video:

One wonders if Bing will launch this to everyone or just make it a setting somewhere.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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