You’ve likely already seen it, but it’s still a little unbelievable to me that Gmail included feces as one of its emoticons. If you haven’t seen it, go ahead, check it out, it’s there (the very last one on the bottom row). And now, we’re getting more emoticons — a whole hell of a lot more.
A new feature in Gmail Labs, Extra Emoji, adds dozens of these different colorful icons as possibilities to send via Gmail. Emoji is the Japanese term used for emoticons, which are hugely popular in that country. So much so that support for them was added to only the Japanese version of the iPhone. And it’s the Japanese who actually made this Gmail Labs feature as well. Specifically, “all of these extra emoticons are straight from the secret underground labs of some of the top Japanese mobile carriers, used with permission,” Google writes on its blog.
I’m still digging through all of them to see if there is anything as interesting as the pile of crap one. I haven’t found anything yet, but the bomb and gun ones are pretty cool.
sweet good for whenever i do use gmail to send out a message
people still use gmail? lmao yahoo mail has unlimited storage, but of course the google fanboys dont care about features
people still use Yahoo Mail?
last time I checked, Y! Mail was about 3x the size of gmail. wake up and stop being such a silicon valley bigot.
Yep, Windows Live Hotmail also pown gmail big time.
And the funny thing is that a lot of costumers are moving to Gmail from Yahoo mail and specially from Hotmail… Just letting you know a simple and real fact.
Don’t care if Y! mail is 100x the size of it. GMail features beat Y! mail hands down. Last I used to use Y!, they didn’t have free pop/imap, message filtering, tags, conversation view, multiple accounts, offline usage, contacts import, chat, reply in a new window, tasks integration, forgotten attachment detector… and a load of others!
I, in fact, prefer GMail to my desktop mail software. And last I check 90% of my friends have migrated from other email services to GMail. The rest 10% are still living the hard life, searching for related messages in their inbox, and turning green every time I tell them about a new GMail feature.
slowpoison, what planet did you use Yahoo! on?
You’ve been living in a box for at least four years, according to MY inbox.
Well, if you really understood my comment, I left Y! camp for GMail because of better features. If you say they now have the features, good for ‘em. Imitation is the best form of flattery. If you think Yahoo is better, why not give us your sales pitch, than quips that we will definitely sneer at.
While you are at it, let’s try functionality also. Try to send an email from Yahoo to one of other accounts. I did and am still waiting (15 mins) for the message to arrive. Did the same with GMail. Immediately there! within seconds.
Again, I have TWO accounts and am a member of two Yahoogroups and I use one of those accounts for eBay. BOTH of them are imported to Hotmail/MSN.
I suggest you find a better internet service and by that I mean they who provide you with the actual internet, not the mail.
You are probably barking at the wrong tree and don’t realize it.
Internet user since 1995.
“Internet user since 1995″
Definitely shows how old you are. I don’t care if your umbilical cord was actually a Cat. 5 Ethernet cable. Has nothing to do with how well you understand Internet. Oh, wait! I spoke too soon. You definitely got that one right. I used a bad Internet service to post the mail using Yahoo. And used a good one to post one using GMail. Thanks for the tip!
BTW, the email sent using Yahoo still hasn’t arrived. May be they are only interested in keeping their old(er) users.
One more reason for the subject of the post. Does 43 strike you as old? Das Kinder…
buzz off, rude child.
Yahoo Mail is much bigger among mainstream users, GMail is bigger among techies. There are, of course, a lot more mainstream users than techies. Among the people who read this site, however, I suspect GMail is bigger.
It’s a similar story to IE vs. Firefox; IE still has 3 times as many users.
Personally, I use Gmail far more, though I maintain a yahoo account and a live account. There was a time that Yahoo Mail was way inferior to GMail, but they’ve greatly improved the product and it’s probably just as good a product. But not better. Different and more traditional, definitely.
I do find Gmail still has better spam filters.
Come on men, Yahoo! Mail? What is that on earth? Whatever be its size – 3x or 9x – do people still use it? At least for me and wise ones like me (MG included), Yahoo! Mail is the “other” mail. I use my Yahoo! id for unwanted newletter/ebook sign-ups whereas my gmail id for things I really want to subscribe to…
Positively 4th Street, Bob.
Why don’t you just unsubscribe that stuff?
Do you hoard stuff?
Two of my three accounts…Do you still you Twitter?
Yahoo! Mail is much larger than Gmail. Even hotmail is much larger than Gmail. Gmail didn’t really pick up like others. Probably it is just the name. I mean G-Mail. What can the G mean besides “Google” to average users. Main asset of Yahoo is its email. Everyone uses Yahoo.
I don’t know anyone who uses anything made by Yahoo here in Ireland…
Aren’t you all supposed to be Yahoos?
Nah, I don’t believe in whacked out leprechauns hoarding marshmallow cereal either…
Quantity is not a measurement of Quality…
Melvin-not actually using it is no quarter to just b!itch about it,,,,,, as others should have learned.
Does Yahoo mail have a pile of crap for an emoticon?
I guess not…
Lycos Mail WAS a piece of crap…maybe ALL of Lycos!
“google fanboys dont care about features”. God that’s hilarious. Yeah, Gmail is devoid of features, there is absolutely nothing of use there. They really need to innovate more, those Gmail slackers.
Unlimited storage? Really? That’s all you got? It’s ok, we’ll wait while you get some more points to make. Really, take your time.
Using only 7% of my total space on gmail, and never deleting my messages, I dont need unlimited storage, 7321 mb and counting is good enough for me!
Unlimited storage is more or less a given for the major mail providers, last time I bothered to look.
I don’t care which one except that most of the spam that uses a major provider’s name says Gmail or Googlemail. Based on that and the poo I dealt with, the phony ‘invitation’ scheme and Google’s general level of disaffectation and incompetence (and search that has been much worse since 2001-02 but I still use it) I just get tired of Google.
“people still use gmail? lmao yahoo mail has unlimited storage, but of course the google fanboys dont care about features”
this comment is obvious a comment bait.
Why else would the site exist if not for comments?
“unlimited storage”
no such thing.
For most average thugs it is as close as it will get.
Who has email traffic that rivals that of spammers?
I wish techcrunch had emoticons to express your opinions about articles, that feces emoticon would’ve been handy here.
that’s a good idea. also what song you’re listening to when you write your comment. henry – you listening?
Porting TechCrunch to LiveJournal…. nice!
And maybe what dress are you wearing, what are you tweeting, what are you up to…all these can be also added.
The Windmills Of YOUR Mind
always a fancy headline.
TC is known for his headlines (especially when the author is MG). This is one such headline.
Simplicity is good, but these emoticons are terrible, Google should’ve used KOLOBOK emoticons.
How about the nice big middle finger? Surprised to see that one in there.
LOL, I also like the rape one
which layer is that on? i was looking for a middle finger one, but only saw thumbs up, index finger up and peace sign.
Not very surprising, as Google is the (co-)author of the proposal to have these emoji encoded in Unicode as well. This is a great effort to standardize the emoji mappings.
See further:
http://sites.go...e/emoji-symbols
http://google-o...e-data-for.html
Proposal text:
http://sites.go...s/proposal-text
Unicode is best WITHOUT garbage code. Do not burden it.
The pig one is quite handy right now, for discussing the flu!
There’s a love hotel. http://en.wikip...wiki/Love_hotel
(it’s the hotel-like building with a heart in front)
Good lord – soon every message sent through gmail will look like a rebus.
You thought the old AOL was dead!
i love how techcrunch makes articles on every little thing of gmail, like a new smilie. really shows the biasedness.
you know that’s not a word, right? you could have just said “bias”
You’re impressively touchy for someone who makes a living writing about crap emoticons. Asshat.
In 1995 I never would have dreamed of having to learn to cojugate the compound word ASSHAT.
What if the US asshat market fails and the Chinese dominate asshat production?
But enough about the the current reality.
Melamine asshats rulez.
Your articles may be informative, but your comments crack me up.
Smileys are important when it comes it is from gmail. Because Gmail = Google. Btw, if this is little, then what is big? This will help at least someone to look up for these features when they login in to gmail again.
Sweet! Poop just might get me to start using gmail. Glad to see the gmail crew have a great since of humor.
This is good thing to increase the features people still use gmail lmao yahoo mail has unlimited storage, but of course the google fanboys dont care about features
For me, the best thing about Gmail is that you can get all of its features with your own domain, for free. There is no indication to anyone that your email is hosted by Google, and you have access via web, POP, and IMAP.
Is there any other provider offering an equivalent free service?
The Gspam is still free…
Um – hotmail
http://domains.live.com
all of your ids are live ids, so you get 25 gigs of skydrive space, a blog, messenger, hotmail, calendar, office live, etc
This is the beginning of the end of Google I think. If they are adding cr*p to its emoticons, they have nothing to do and wasting money.
Actually, those crap emoticons are really popular in Asia. Don’t ask me why, I guess they’re just more comfortable with bodily processes. They sell little toys in that same iconic style that you see in the image too. It comes as absolutely no surprise that the Google Labs in Japan came up with it.
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There’s your number ONE reason for the crap emoticon, right on cue!
Gmail is the BOMB!! Very efficient in catching spam, The integration with Calender et. al is no match for yahoo. I use yahoo for my social networking sign ups and Gmail for all other email addresses.
There is actually one for SWINE FLU!!!lol it is one of the pink ones!!
lol@ MG’s response to biasedness
Gmail is ULTRA efficient in SPAM and people falsely ID’ed as Gmail accounts!
Gmail is the WebTV of the new century…
haha i can actually see the crap in my gmail.
That crap isn’t new, it’s been in GMail for awhile now – and I’m not even being facetious, although it is cracking me up as a tag line…
Google started playing with the emoji idea some time ago. I posted on my blog about this a year ago:
http://analytic...imer-emoji.html
Says the emoji expert…
That pile of crap icon looks a bit like a beehive icon… oh wait. You got me.
BTW, Gmail kicks the beehive out of Yahoo mail.
God, I hate graphical emoticons. They sully the artform that is ascii one-line emotion expression.
Or the pope with a tapeworm:
+<8(-(&)<
It’s because the Japanese word for ‘poo’ sounds like the word for ‘luck’, and so the poos have become good luck charms:
http://search.j...20070320wh.html
The guy who came up with the idea and started to make the charms has made a ton of money, apparently. So the poo was lucky for at least one person.
This conversation doesn’t mean anything at all. Just use Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail or any others mail services and shut up !!!!
Nice looking dog.
I’ve been using the poo emoticon for months now.
Sometimes it says things that words just can’t accomplish.
Like the lower intestinal surgery was a success?
So many people with so much time to debate which email service is the best/worst. Unemployment must be worse than I thought.
And you don’t think they are at work?
Aren’t YOU at work?
Welcome fellow loser ;-p
I have hotmail, y!mail AND gmail and I use all of them all the time lol … and crap emoticon is funny
Maybe if you weren’t so America centric you’d realize that the pile of poo is standard in pretty much every cell phone in Japan.