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Google is now showing AdWords ads above search results in its photo sharing service Picasa. It’s hard to imagine people being shocked by this.
Google has been getting more aggressive with adding ads to its products. Only a few weeks ago, Google started adding them to Google News search results after years of not having them.
The Google Operating System blog reports that Google is likely changing the name of their Picasa photo sharing service to “Google Photos”. A few other features are due to rollout as well, including licensing options, email photo uploads, and tagging of people in pics.
Picasa is owned by Google, so it’s always been a bit vexing that the site’s search function lagged behind Flickr’s. Google is apparently taking steps to remedy the situation, as a new update allows users to “[d]iscover and explore public photos posted by others in the Picasa Web Albums community.”
Google unveiled the latest updates to its Picasa photo organizer, and those included a new feature called Picasa Web Albums.
Google has acquired Neven Vision and its image recognition technology, which will be incorporated into the Picasa photo organizer.
Picasa Web Albums is supposed to be invite-only. However, if you enter your Google Account email address in the box on the picasaweb.google.com homepage, you may get in immediately. I did.
The call for Google to port its software applications to Linux got off to a good start with the company’s photo sharing and editing software Picasa making the jump.
Google’s known for developing great services without necessarily knowing how they’re going to monitize them.
Yesterday, Google launched Picasa 2.0, an updated version of their acquired digital image management software. Reaction to software seemed quite positive, especially those concerning the price tag.
As if Google.com had any problems with acquiring new technologies along comes Picasa.com and helps Google let people share graphics and video for free!
