{"id":19428,"date":"2016-07-07T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=19428"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:06:38","slug":"google-releases-brilliant-creepy-new-feature-to-crowd-source-business-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/07\/google-releases-brilliant-creepy-new-feature-to-crowd-source-business-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Releases Brilliant (&#038; Creepy) New Feature to Crowd Source Business Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Guides will be able to\u00a0have photos that they are taking of local businesses &#8220;automagically matched&#8221;\u00a0and added to\u00a0the business listings from their Google Photos collection. The feature,\u00a0first released\u00a0on Android but soon available on iOS, only requires you to &#8220;turn on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/photos\/answer\/6193313\">back up<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/photos\/answer\/6153599\">location<\/a>\u00a0features in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos\">Google Photos<\/a>\u00a0to have your photos of places appear in the Contribute tab of Google Maps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19429\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-07-at-8.15.30-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-07 at 8.15.30 AM\" width=\"507\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-07-at-8.15.30-AM.png 507w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-07-at-8.15.30-AM-126x200.png 126w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-07-at-8.15.30-AM-379x600.png 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Google Photos was introduced a year ago I noted in my article\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/google-photos-a-visual-graph-of-people-places-and-things-can-it-become-their-everything-graph\/\">Google Photos- A Visual Graph of People, Places and Things. Can It Become Their &#8220;Everything Graph&#8221;?<\/a> :\u00a0<\/em>Almost every photo these days comes geotagged so Google knows, at least within a 100 feet or so of where it was taken. They don\u2019t yet auto assign a specific [business] location but they show incredible accuracy in auto assigning the photos to a city level. I assume that Google has more granular insights but has not yet turned them loose for fear of a privacy backlash.<\/p>\n<p>So much for that fear.<\/p>\n<p>Google Photos is one of those brilliant tools that shows Google at its very best and its very creepiest with its use of AI, machine learning and the ability to dig deep into your phone to surface additional details about businesses that you are frequenting.<\/p>\n<p>And now with a little gamefication (Local Guide points), the offer of some free storage and some very sophisticated technology Google has unleashed one of the worlds most amazing geo-photo crowd sourcing projects ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Guides will be able to\u00a0have photos that they are taking of local businesses &#8220;automagically matched&#8221;\u00a0and added to\u00a0the business listings from their Google Photos collection. The feature,\u00a0first released\u00a0on Android but soon available on iOS, only requires you to &#8220;turn on the\u00a0back up\u00a0and\u00a0location\u00a0features in\u00a0Google Photos\u00a0to have your photos of places appear in the Contribute tab of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19434,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428\/revisions\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}