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Google buys Photo-editing Site Picnik
Techtree News Staff, Mar 02, 2010 1236 hrs ISTWon't make any big changes but will focus on integration, adding new features to Picnik
Internet search giant Google has acquired web-based photo editing service Picnik for a "very, very happy number". Picnik's flash-powered photo editing features are already offered in Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo Mail, and Photobucket. Google clearly announced that it will be making no changes to the site and will be working hard on integration and new features.
As per a blog post on the official Picnik blog, this photo editing service will continue offering support to non-Google websites. As Google clarified in the blog post, no big changes have been planned and the focus lies only on integration as well as adding new features. Hence, no need to worry about the photos.
Flickr is one the largest photo sharing site after Facebook that makes use of Picnik's photo editing capabilities. Since, on the face of it, it looks like Picasa isn't doing much wonders for the search giant and adding the Picnik feather might get Google some brownie points. Adobe Photoshop's online version also exists but doesn't offer any sort of integration with popular photo sharing services.
So, in a way, Yahoo's Flickr service, Facebook and Google's Picasa will commonly share a photo-editing service Picnik. Google obviously has no intention of barring the Facebook and Flickr which are two heavily used websites for uploading photos. Reason being simple that Google may like to use Picnik for image tagging and show it up in it's experimental Image-Swirl feature.
Also, Google maybe secretly planning to add meta tags to the images to make them search friendly in Google Images search. Thus, several images from Picasa, Facebook and Flickr would appear in Google Images provided the user allows it to be friendly to search engines. That may be one of the long term plans for Google but as of now, all we're interested in knowing is what 'new features' will be introduced to Picnik over a period of time.
As per a blog post on the official Picnik blog, this photo editing service will continue offering support to non-Google websites. As Google clarified in the blog post, no big changes have been planned and the focus lies only on integration as well as adding new features. Hence, no need to worry about the photos.
Flickr is one the largest photo sharing site after Facebook that makes use of Picnik's photo editing capabilities. Since, on the face of it, it looks like Picasa isn't doing much wonders for the search giant and adding the Picnik feather might get Google some brownie points. Adobe Photoshop's online version also exists but doesn't offer any sort of integration with popular photo sharing services.
So, in a way, Yahoo's Flickr service, Facebook and Google's Picasa will commonly share a photo-editing service Picnik. Google obviously has no intention of barring the Facebook and Flickr which are two heavily used websites for uploading photos. Reason being simple that Google may like to use Picnik for image tagging and show it up in it's experimental Image-Swirl feature.
Also, Google maybe secretly planning to add meta tags to the images to make them search friendly in Google Images search. Thus, several images from Picasa, Facebook and Flickr would appear in Google Images provided the user allows it to be friendly to search engines. That may be one of the long term plans for Google but as of now, all we're interested in knowing is what 'new features' will be introduced to Picnik over a period of time.
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