Google Photos has added a 'classic search' toggle that lets users switch between its standard keyword search and the AI-powered Ask Photos feature on demand.
The toggle matters because Ask Photos, while conversational, returns different results than the traditional index-based search. Users now control which engine runs, rather than being forced into whichever Google defaults to. That tradeoff between AI interpretation and exact-match retrieval is the real story here.
Read the original for screenshots of where the toggle lives in the UI and how the two modes behave differently in practice.
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