Google Allows You To Look Up Your Own Photos in the Search Engine

Search engine giant Google has brought another feature to Google+ in an effort to create a better photo-sharing experience and to most likely keep up with the new update from Flickr, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The new feature incorporates the prominent search engine into the photos on your Google+ account. When you upload a photo to Google+, Google will scan that picture and remember it. If you ever need to access that photo for any reason—and are already signed into your Google account—you will not need to access your page on the social networking site. Instead, you have the option of looking for that picture in the search bar. For example, if you took a photo of a squirrel, type in “my photos of squirrels” and the photos of squirrels on your Google+ account will appear at the head of the search results.

Also if you have a picture of a friend that you would like to access, you put that person’s in the search bar. As long as that individual is your friend or in one of your circles on Google+, Google can find them without the need for tagging.

According to Google executives, the company is attempting to ease the task of managing photos for the user and putting more of the task on smart computers. Google has also recently announced a new update that lets the user select the best picture out of a series.

The recent changes Yahoo made to Flickr, have allowed the photo-sharing service to have a look similar to Google+. Now, photos on Flickr are much larger and easier to see while browsing. However, Flickr has yet to obtain the recognition software Google and Facebook possess.

Recently, Google announced an update in which documents and calendar events would appear in Gmail next to search results, if the documents or events were relevant to what the user had searched.