Related: Recently Google has been sending me cheery messages about something called Albums that it compiles for me out of the photos I take with my Android phone's camera. The feature is as creepy as it's all over the place.
I think the titles come from my Google Calendar, and the photos are put together by date. Albums mix activities that happen over the same time period, like photos of my daughter before a trip in the same album as the mundane, banal and, at times, painful photographs I took of my father's flat and personal effects while documenting some paperwork I had to do during such trip, which was just after he died.
Thanks for the happy memories, Google! Now please tell me how to turn the feature off!
The "Stories" feature does get some things wrong, but I find it cool. I don't use Google Calendar, so it's not getting data from that for me. Here's a recent example that it did for me with pretty good results:
You realize you can choose/remove pictures as well as edit and add captions?
(And yes, it can be turned off. I think it goes along with AutoAwesome)
For me this is one of a few data points that proves there are still real googlers around :-) Now if they would just bring back desktop search and web clips (I think it analyzed every rss linked from every web page I read and figured out what kind of news I was interested in. More practically speaking: it was magic in a good way. )
I think the titles come from my Google Calendar, and the photos are put together by date. Albums mix activities that happen over the same time period, like photos of my daughter before a trip in the same album as the mundane, banal and, at times, painful photographs I took of my father's flat and personal effects while documenting some paperwork I had to do during such trip, which was just after he died.
Thanks for the happy memories, Google! Now please tell me how to turn the feature off!