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GOOGLE MIGHT DOMINATE the search engine industry, but that doesn’t stop its rivals from trying different (and weird) things to try and separate themselves from the pack.
The latest example of this comes from Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, which is now providing search results for using emojis instead of words.
The search engine is able to recognise the semantic meaning of the emoji, and turns it into text. This allows it to present results from that alone, meaning it’s possible to search using emojis alone.
So if you wanted to find out what the capital city of a country is, you only need the emoji of that country’s flag to complete part of it. It will even recognise the Konami code should you still remember it off by heart.
While it’s mostly a gimmick, its more useful option is to tell you what exactly an emoji means, just in case you’ve been left befuddled by the more cryptic examples that appear in your messages.
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Shur by the time you’ve found the right emoticon you’d have typed the word 5 times over!
:-D
Great.
Except nobody that wants to find anything uses bing.
Is it going to get too a stage where the keypad will be like the one in idiocracy.
Only it will have balls, just so you can flick it in the balls and laugh..
Might watch ow my balls later http://youtu.be/r_4jrMwvZ2A then get some brawndo cause it’s got electrolytes.
Man, you need electrolytes. Can’t live without them.
When is the last time you said “I’ll just bing that”?
Somehow I don’t think this feature, as groundbreaking and fantastic as it is, will cause a mass exodus from Google
The way Google has changed its search algorithm might get people who like free TV to change though. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/project-free-tv-torrent-sites-drop-in-google-results-with-new-algorithm/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29
Not unless you don’t know what you’re looking for
I can’t find an emoticon that adequately describes how feel about this news
up up, down down, left right, left right, B, A. (thejournal why you not have hidden Konami Code easter egg!)
Was that not a cheat for Mortal Kombat on the SNES??
Soon we won’t have to wipe our own arses!
Radburn sounds like an ass ailment.
I already don’t, sure what’s the point, just gets dirty again too quickly.
Heh. At last, a use for Bing.
Sigh humanity..
Some adults I know need to reign in their use of these little mad yokes.
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