Google can identify your photos

Assuming you upload your photos into Google Photos, you can search your pictures by keyword as long as you start your search with "my photos of". What makes this super interesting is that you don't have to have previously identified the content of your photos; Google is figuring it out all on it's own.

For example, all of the photos of license plates it found in my account, were taken with my phone and have dates and times as filenames. I've added no additional metadata yet it still identified the images correctly.

It is important to note that this only works when you're signed in to Google and only you can get your results.

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Find In-Depth Articles on Google by editing the URL

Sometimes you want to find more about a topic and you find a lot of superficial news articles and blog posts that keep rehashing the same information. Google shows a list of in-depth articles for some queries, but this feature seems to be restricted to the US and it's only displayed for some queries.

How to manually trigger Google's in-depth section? Just add &tbs=ida:1&gl=us to a Google search URL and you'll see a list of 10 in-depth articles from sites like Wall Street Journal, New York Times‎, Wired, New Yorker, Slate and more. Some examples: [Google], [Daft Punk], [robots], [Russia], [happy].

However, I have noticed that this works only for URLs returned from searches initiated at Google directly. For example, the Daft Punk example above, when searched directly at Google.com gets us the URL https://www.google.com/search?q=daft+punk, which, when adding the suggested text to the end of the URL, the results are as described.

However, when I start the search from Chrome's address bar, the results URL is https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=daft%20punk. If I add the suggested text to the end of this URL I do not receive the in-depth results.

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6 links that will show you what Google knows about you

1. Find out what Google thinks about you
2. Find out your location history
3. Find out your entire Google Search history
4. Get a monthly security and privacy report from Google
5. Find out all the apps and extensions that are accessing your Google data
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