The most I like Google The photo is your powerful search engine images and videos. Thanks to Google’s machine learning, it is able to recognize faces, animals and landscapes. objects, events, food and more.
With this image recognition, we can find that photo or video within seconds, we have to practically describe the photo so that Google Photos does not show them. For that, it suffices know how to use your search filters, as we will see below for take full advantage of the Google Photos search engine.
Search for people and animals
To search for a person’s photo, Google Photos offers us several options. The first option is to go to the ‘People and animals’ section and to the list click on a person’s photo
Search by location
Google Photos allows us to filter our photos by location. Can we write the name of a place or explore in the section ” Your card “ to see on a heat map where we took photos and videos.
Search by date
To search by date, just enter a date in your search engine. We will be able to search all photos and videos of a certain year, month or day of a specific year or any year. So by searching for “July 4th” we will see all the photos that have been taken on that date over the years.
Search for things
Google’s smart search sticks out its chest when searching for things. Here you can search for keywords such as “Sky”, “Mountains”, “Food”, “Hamburger”, “Birthday”, “Hike”, “Caves”, “Cars”, “Flowers” and co to find a certain photo or video. In the “Things” section of the search engine, you will be able to see some of the keywords in which your images and videos have been classified.
Find text in an image
The Google Photos search engine also text recognition, with which you can write the word you remember that appears in this image or screenshot.
Search by image or file type
You can also filter your images and videos by image type, for example to see only selfies, landscapes, videos, screenshots, animations, collages, photos and 360º videos, etc. .. You just need to write some of these categories. In addition, you can also find file format
Search by recently added
If you uploaded an image or video to Google Photos and you see that it does not appear as added today, it is because the photo or video has an older date, so you will have to search by ‘Recently added’.
Use your new filters
Recently now, during a first search, some new filters which allow us easily select more than one person and / or a type of image or video. So, for example, we can search all the videos that certain people appear in.
Combine searches
Finally, if the previous filter is insufficient, we can always combine search terms write the names of people, objects and dates in the same search.
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