Microsoft has added an emoji search capability to its Bing search engine, meaning that those who prefer to search for items such as sushi restaurants and the Three Wise Monkeys pictorially have found a friend in the tech giant.

“Our team had a quick chat about introducing emojis to Bing and it turned out that a developer was already building it,” Craig Beilinson, Microsoft’s director of marketing communications, told VF Daily in an e-mail. “We want Bing to understand the real world around us—we think it helps Bing provide the best results—so it just made sense that Bing should know all about emoji.”

Emojis, or emoticons, are already installed on most iOS devices, though they may need to be enabled by the user before being visible. Apple offers a guide to enabling an emoji keyboard on their support Web site. Select Android devices can also view emojis, and all Microsoft Phone and Windows 8+ devices come with emoji keyboards pre-installed.

Mapping results to emoji characters relies largely on the official names ascribed to each figurine or image, but Microsoft added in some additional terms. “For instance, the official name for the eggplant emoji is the British name ‘aubergine,’ so we took some liberty there to map the results to ‘eggplant,’” Beilinson said.

Emoji search is unlikely to make you more productive, but it might help you understand what some emojis mean—searching for a single emoji is a good way to learn that character’s official definition.

A cursory glance at the results for emojis that have been commonly used as double-entendres did not reveal any racy answers to queries, so it appears the company has played it somewhat straight in its mapping.

“To me, the more useful feature is when I’m looking for something like ‘sushi in Seattle’ or a ‘taxi in New York,’” Beilinson added. “Just like I would text my friends if they wanted to go out for sushi, now I can search Bing using the emoji on my phone instead of typing ‘sushi’ and still find a great place to eat.”

Google, at press time, does not offer emoji search. VF Daily encourages you to send us a screenshot of your favorite emoji search. Tweet it to us at @VanityFair.