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• @shimritby Shimrit Ben-Yair on x

  We've heard your feedback that you want more control over the type of results you see when searching in Google Photos. To address this, we're starting to roll out a new experience that puts you in the driver's seat, letting you choose between fast classic search and intelligent […

• @rakeshsfnyc Rakesh Agrawal on x

  Good. A lot of the forced AI switches have generated slower, less accurate results. Things don't need to be “summarized” when I know what I'm looking for. Evernote defaulted its search to AI and I had to turn it off because it was so slow. Nice summary from Gemini: Software

• @pauselius Joshua Pauselius on bluesky

  Thank God.  Their AI feature was so broken that many times I could not find the photo I searching when it previously was no issue.  [embedded post]

• @glinden Greg Linden on bluesky

  Remarkable to see AI-powered search experiences so badly implemented, such a bad user experience, that companies have to add band-aids like toggles to disable them to reduce people abandoning the product entirely.  Trillion dollar company, maybe test the UX and verify customers a…

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  The AI search in Google Photos is, by a comfortable margin, the worst search product Google has ever released techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/g...

• @rands@mastodon.social Rands on mastodon

  This means you have a bad design and are now making it worse: https://techcrunch.com/...