For years I have been worried that Flickr was going to die and I wouldn’t have a place to host my gigantic mountain of pictures anymore.

Yesterday, a back up service may have presented itself.  Google Photos… which considering I started hosting photos on Google Picassa before moving to Flickr’s unlimited storage service isn’t too hard to imagine.  Google Photos offers unlimited storage, but not at full resolution.  That’s a big negative, but if this terrible Flickr Free world ever exists I will live with it.  It has an auto upload function that seems very similar to the one Flickr just added, and the search functions seem similar too, although Google > Yahoo when it comes to search.  It has facial recognition too, which Flickr does not (yet).

The big test is can I use it to host pictures on the old bloggerooski.  If you see Rush on this post then the answer is yes.  If you don’t, then Flickr still rules the online photo universe.