Now use emoji to search pictures in Google Photos

NEW DELHI: Amidst all the pranks that Google played on April Fool’s day, the tech giant also made one serious announcement. Google has added an interesting feature to its Google Photos service.

The new feature will enable users to search for their photos using emoji. The search engine giant revealed the news in its official blog post on Google +. The company said that the user just needs to use the tiny little picture instead of typing full words.


The search uses the similar image recognition skills Google Photos had for a while. If the user enters an umbrella then apart from the pictures of an umbrella, they will also see the images of a rainy day. The search feature using emoji sounds interesting, but it is still not clear how many emoji the update supports.

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Going by the rounds of recent April Fool’s joke it is a bit uncertain whether Google is testing out the feature or whether it’s going to make it permanent.
Google recently, played a Gmail prank on April Fool’s which backfired badly as it did not turned out to be very funny.

For some, Google's wicked sense of humour had major consequences. One user, who said they were a professional writer, wrote: "Thanks to 'mic drop' I just lost my job."