"The reality is that maintaining both Google+ Photos (the private photo management component of Google+) and Google Photos poses several challenges," Sabharwal said. Sabharwal even explained that keeping both photo services alive and fully functional wouldn't be feasible for Google. Clicking the Photos option in Google+ automatically takes you to Google Photos, though you can go back to Google+ Photos if you wish.Īnd clearly Google wants people to start moving to the new service as that's where the company will concentrate its efforts. But juggling both services poses a challenge. So users can still stick with Google+ Photos for now. The Google+ private photo management feature, which lets you back up, edit and create private photo albums, will be replaced by, or more accurately, managed by Google Photos. An easy way to find these is to visit the Photos tab of your Profile page." All of the photos, videos, and albums you have already shared on Google+, including their posts, comments, and +1s are also unaffected. "You can continue to post photos and videos, and your followers will be able to comment and +1 as before. "The great photo and video sharing service that's part of Google+ is unaffected," Sabharwal said. Google's initial blog post from Monday clearly didn't do a very good job of explaining exactly what would become of Google+ Photos, hence requiring a second post to clarify. But users of the initial service express concerns, both about losing access to the service and about potentially losing their content.
A company plans to shut down one online service with the intention of replacing it with another. This is a common problem that hits anyone who stores information via the Web. Second, the photos, videos and albums that users have already shared through Google+ will stay alive, according to Sabharwal. First, users of the service will still be able to post and share photos and videos with their followers.
On Tuesday, Anil Sabharwal, the director of Google Photos, attempted to reach out to users of Google+ Photos, concerned about losing the service and their photos. Replacing it will be Google Photos, a new service the company launched in May. On Monday, Google announced that Google+ Photos, which lets you upload and share photos via your Google+ account, would start shutting down as of August 1. So Google has to make it clear to its users exactly what it's doing and offering. In this area, it competes against such rivals as Flickr, Amazon Prime Photos, Snapfish and Photobucket. Google is far from the only company that offers online photo storage. Google+ Photos is technically retiring, but that doesn't mean your photos or the service itself are actually going away. What is new, Google confirmed with us, is the ability to find them using more natural language like “my photos” and the use of computer-vision technology to try and better identify types of photos, such as those that are clearly recognizable landmarks.Google+ Photos is retiring though the service will still be accessible. Postscript: Yes, photos showing up in Google Search from your Google+ account isn’t new.
GOOGLE PLUS PHOTOS SEARCH UPDATE
We will update our post when we learn more. We are currently checking on how this differs from Search Plus Your World from last year. Here are more examples of Danny Sullivan’s photos, some that do work and some that do not work.īut then there are cases where nothing is returned: This works only when you are logged into your Google account and have photos and/or friend’s with photos in your circles.īing also has a similar feature where they integrate with Facebook to search friends photos via Bing Image search. Here is an example of Danny Sullivan’s sunset photos: Note, Google explains that they use “computer vision and machine learning to help recognize more general concepts in your photos such as sunsets, food and flowers.” So this appears like it will get better over time, as it is used more and more by searchers. You can even search for your friend’s photos such as or. Google now lets you search your private photos and the photos your friends on Google+ share with you.Īll you need to do is search on Google for keywords such as or to bring up matching photos.
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