Google Photos is a photo and video storage and sharing service from Google, which was announced at the company's developer conference and split off from the social network Google+. At the start it offered unlimited free storage of photos at a slightly reduced quality, a feature that drew many users until the policy ended in 2021. Its main attraction was the use of machine learning to recognize people, places and objects, so that pictures could be searched by words, and to organize them into albums, collages and animations automatically. It is available as an app for Android and iOS and on the web, and has become one of the most widely used photo services in the world.
Before and after
- 25 April 2015April 2015 Nepal earthquake
- 27 April 2015Discovery of S/2015 (136472) 1
- 7 May 20152015 United Kingdom general election
- 13 May 2015Release of Discord
- 28 May 2015Creation of Google Photos
- 7 June 2015Death of Christopher Lee
- 13 June 2015Wedding of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, and Sofia Hellqvist
- 16 June 2015Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
- 16 June 2015Rise of Trumpism
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