Bing Wants You To Search In Emoji With New Emoji Keyboard

By Barry Schwartz

Published: July 30, 2015 at 9:33 am

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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:

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

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and 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.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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