There were almost two billion photos shared every day last year, but despite having once been the king of photo-sharing, Flickr only accounted for around ten million of those shares. In order to help boost the image and video-hosting service, Yahoo has decided to give Flickr a major renovation that brings a plethora of new features that improve the service across the board.
Flickr has undergone a major renovation, its third in as many years. The Yahoo-owned image and video hosting site on Thursday rolled out a bevy of new features for both desktop and mobile users. For starters, Flickr is making it easier to upload content with a new cool called Uploadr. This tool allows users to effortlessly upload images to the company’s cloud from virtually any device. Once in the cloud, the company’s new Camera Roll helps organize everything and presents it just like you’d find on a smartphone. Perhaps the most impressive new tool is Magic View which can categorize your images by all sorts of variables including abstract, symmetrical, people, landscapes and more. You can even search for specific things such as “a picture of my cat from halloween” and it’ll return results. This powerful search algorithm could be a game-changer as it demonstrates just how far image search technology has come.