Google Photos turns one, boasts 13.7 petabytes of uploads

Himanshu, 28 May, 2016

Google's photo hosting and sharing service has turned a year old, and to celebrate, the Mountain View, California-based company has shared some interesting information related to the service.

"Now 200 million of you are using Google Photos each month," Google said in a blog post. 'We’ve delivered more than 1.6 billion animations, collages and movies, among other things."

"You’ve collectively freed up 13.7 petabytes of storage on your devices - it would take 424 years to swipe through that many photos! We’ve also applied 2 trillion labels, and 24 billion of those have been for ... selfies."

The search giant also shared some useful Google Photos tips. Head to the Source link below to take a look.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
30 May 2016
yZx

quick... your tinfoil hat has blown off...

Colombianguy
30 May 2016
9LA

Idont know how often you do the back ups and probably it works for you in that way. But google photos saved my life when I had to take a lot of photos in a remote place with no computers but at least with 4g service. Goggle photos was backing up all...