Google's Senior Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, announced new photo features for its Google Plus social network at the Google I/O Conference, which he claims "sets it apart" from other social networking sites.
Google has constantly claimed that it is not competing against other social networking giants like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. However, that hasn't stopped the company from trying to be the best. The company is now looking to brush up its photo features, something that's been a plus point for the other social networking giants.
Along with few other new products and updates, Google's Senior Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, announced new photo features for its Google Plus social network, which he claims "sets it apart" from other social networking sites at the Google I/O conference this week.
"Our goals are to make people happy and get technology out of the way," Gundotra told ABC News. "You know what makes people happy? Great photos of the people they care about. Today the steps involved to get people happy is very complicated. Take a photo, remember to get it off the device, get it on to the machine, edit it, back it up, share it."
One of the new features allows users to adjust photo effects. The company also introduced a new "Auto-Awesome" feature that automatically adjusts images or groups them together like taking multiple pictures and turning them into an animated image.
Apart from this, Google has also made things easier for Android users with an auto-upload and back-up feature. With this feature, as soon as a picture is clicked through the phone, it is automatically uploaded to the user's Google account. Gundotra says this is one feature that sets the company apart because the picture that is automatically uploaded is of full resolution. Other social networking sites don't allow users to upload full high-resolution images.
"We are a better photo service. You look better on Google Plus. You look more beautiful," he said. "It's more enjoyable to share photos in higher resolution with more beauty, across all your devices on Google Plus than in any other service. Other services are still beginning to catch up with us on automatic back-up."
