Have you ever gotten frustrated searching for the right emoji?
You know you've seen the emoji but you don't know the exact name.
Most search even on iOS using simple text matching:
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This means our emoji search can match emojis to words it's never seen before. No exact match required.
It's not perfect, in fact, at the time of writing, it crashes a lot on mobile but it's a lot of progress for the constraints we're working under.
Also you can try making it work yourself.
The code is completely open source and you can see all the details of how it works here: github.com/ThatGuySam/emoji-…