I met with Google shortly after the announcement, and they mentioned all sorts of neat tricks they didn’t get around to discussing in the keynote.”
Photos from Hawaii? Sure — it’d be weird if it couldn’t find those quickly.
But being able to type “Millennium Falcon” and find an album of Millennium Falcon photos I took a year-and-a-half ago and totally forgot about? Crazy. I didn’t tag this photo “Millennium Falcon” in any way. It just knew. It also worked with “spaceship.”
It can find pictures of your dog with a search for “dog” — or you can get super specific, with a search for something like “Golden Retriever.” It doesn’t work 100 percent of the time, but when it does, it’s a trip. It’s a bit like having Google Image Search for strictly your own photos.”
Google Photos will tag the photo as being in Paris because of the Eiffel Tower, and it’s smart enough to know that any photos timestamped within an hour or so are probably in Paris, too. “We take limitations of physics — how fast you could reasonably move — into account here,” says Google Photos’ product lead David Lieb.
The photos shown here, for example, did not have geotagging data attached.”
If the free plan offers unlimited storage, what’s the draw of a paid plan? Turns out…”
If you’re using the “Original” plan, which keeps your file in its original form, you get 15GB for free — the same 15GB that’s already shared across your Gmail/Drive accounts. After that, it’s $2 a month for up to 100GB or $10 a month for 1TB.”
