Picasa Upgrades, Falls Short Of Flickr

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.”

There are still some unresolved issues, however. As Google Blogoscoped’s Philipp Lenssen asked, “what are you gonna do with the photos you find? Well, you can look at them, but there’s the nice movement of explained, “you can actually include or remix the content you find for use on your own website.)

The responses in the “here, if you’d like, but there’s nothing too exciting. Still, it’s good to see Google getting back into the “Web albums” game.



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