SAN FRANCISCO—At its I/O keynote, Google announced that Google Photos is now a standalone product. The service has officially been spun off from Google+ and is being billed as a brand new product, according to Google's Anil Sabharwal, and Google hopes the revamp will enable it to better take on the likes of Flickr and Facebook Photos. The new service will be available at photos.google.com.
Google Photos looks a lot like Google plus Photos, just without the Google+ part. There is still tons of cloud storage; pictures are still automatically backed up to the cloud, and Auto-Awesome (though it has been renamed to "Assistant") is still here. That feature still automatically surprises the user by adding funky effects, making panoramas, and creating album slideshows using copies of your pictures.
There are a few new additions however. Google+ Photos has long been able to use image recognition to automatically tag the contents of pictures for search results, but the new service is exposing these computer vision results to users in a more obvious way. Google Photos automatically makes collections of your most-frequently photographed people or objects like "food" or "landscapes." Tapping on a person's face will search for other pictures of that person in your collection. It also relies heavily on gestures to navigate through one's entire timeline, letting the user pinch and zoom out from individual pictures all the way up to a high level view that shows pictures organized by years.
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