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It was one or two years ago?

You could just plug in a search term like a person's name if you had them labeled, but more useful was just plug in a location. Like "University of Michigan"

And it would use the data it had and return you all kinds of photos with that location area tagged by your camera or your phone.

And I'm talking camera, as in way back in the early 2000s some of my photos it would pull the location from my Canon.

Now you can't search anymore It's all only AI.

So I tell AI "show me photos from the University of Michigan" and it will pull up one photo of the University of Michigan.

And I will try to talk to it like I do chat GPT. I will say something like no I ask for all of my photos from this location. And it has no clue what I'm saying whatsoever. You can't communicate with it back and forth like Chat GPT.

I mean it is complete shit. Just useless as all out. If the old system of search was a seven out of 10 it is literally a 2 out of 10.

WHY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT

Last month, Google opened up a waitlist to get access to its new Gemini AI-powered Ask Photos feature in the Google Photos app.

I signed up for the waitlist last month but still don't have it myself, but some users have started to receive it.

Here's what the onboarding screen looks like. Here's what the settings page for it looks like in the Google Photos app. Finally, here's what using the feature is like.

Thanks to Dan on Telegram for the images!

Most of our resale stuff arrives here with the box labels removed. Since we make our money by figuring out what things are, one of us in the building can usually decipher it. However, we occasionally get huge boxes of random small “metal pieces” etc. that are obviously expensive, yet we don’t have a clue. I usually kick them under a shelf-sometimes for years - until I happen to see something on eBay to identify them. By that time, I often can’t remember where I put them.

Couple of weeks ago, I revisited two dozen such boxes, snapped some good clear pictures, and the Picture Search results were amazing. I was able to positively identify four out of five items that we had previously stashed in the “unknown” category. As I suspected, most of them were quite valuable, and I’m going to do a dozen or so every week until I work through the backlog.

Has anyone else had any luck with that?