photo album

Plenty, around 34 million photos, Zmarties estimated. He searched a number of popular terms and record the number, and rank them descendingly. Here is some of the most popular words used in Picasa Web Albums.

  • the - 1,128,279
  • and - 1,075,975
  • in - 823,335
  • of - 782,688
  • a - 600,900

I have just checked my photo album, and very surprising to me - more than 800 are photos hosted there (mostly unlisted). “[T]here are as many unsearchable photos as there are searchable ones - many users are making use of non-public albums, and even when they do have public albums they have not elected to add them to the community photos search.” Sure, you can’t find a single one of my more than 800 photos using the Community Search. (Though you can still search the ones that made public.)

For more about his analysis, check out Zmarties’ blog post.

[photo by Beatrice Murch, used under a CC-license]