For me, Google Photos started a bit earlier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa

A great product, its too bad it was discontinued. I much prefered it over lightroom.

I think it was Bump Photoroll not Picasa that became Google Photos: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bump

Because of android lockins. Not because it's a great product imo.

Have you used it? The search is so good, I never have to dig through photo grids anymore.

The creation of Google Photos was basically an act of mutiny by David Lieb.

He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway. Eventually resorting to back-channeling to Larry in order to get him to champion the project.

He tells the story in an episode of the podcast "The Social Radars."

Pretty good listen.

> He kept getting told to stop working on it and he kept doing it anyway.

By G+ leadership - Vic Gundotra.