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Google Photos merges classic search with AI to speed up results


The AI feature, first introduced at Google's I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries.

The AI feature, first introduced at Google’s I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries. Addressing these concerns, Google Photos product manager Jamie Aspinall wrote on X earlier in June that “Ask Photos isn’t where it needs to be, in terms of latency, quality and ux,” and noted the rollout would be paused for a couple of weeks while Google worked to bring back the “speed and recall of the original search.” You must also enable Face Groups, the feature that labels the people and pets found in the Google Photos library.

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