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at this year's google i/o google made some major changes to its google plus social network i'm dan farber from cnet and i'm joined by our google correspondent seth rosenblatt sets so there's some big things going on with Google+ apps competing with Facebook absolutely there's actually three big changes to the network will go over the two smaller ones first you'll notice that google has a new layout for Google+ it's more of a sort of its Pinterest via cards google now's so let's get into it so Pinterest means lots of pictures lots of pictures ins in the net cards means lots of data that can be brought out metadata that can product so the big change really out of all three is what they've done to photos you now can upload your vacation photos for example and Google will do a number of things to them that they think you want them to do this includes getting rid of bad photos photos that are how to focus photos that are overexposed underexposed photos that don't really seem to be of anything it just Flags them oh it doesn't just dump them into the door no it doesn't delete them but it filters them out at the same time eight filters in photos that it thinks you care about for example if you tag a woman in your photo as your wife with her name the next time you search for that name it will find other photos that look like her it will also flag things like mountains and sunsets and beaches so if you go on a vacation to Thailand and you type in Thailand beach it will be able without you doing anything to simply pull out all the photos that are thailand and beach from your photo stream or from the public from your photo store but also i would assume from a public five streams i would assume that too and i was that is that using some of the technology from knowledge graph which which it where it knows about lots of entities like 500 million entities absolutely and all the connections between those entities yes so we are seeing behind the scenes sort of a tightening of the strings of Google's knowledge base the various things that it's doing are becoming more integrated with each other this is something that we saw with Google+ over the past year as Gmail was brought in and Google Drive was brought in so these things are really becoming components of the same hole and you get your screen 16 gigabytes for free yes and they just announced Monday that you now have 15 gigabytes that you can use across gmail across Google Drive across Google Plus for your photos how do you think this is going to play out photos is a huge part of what Facebook does an Instagram which also part of Facebook so is this a Google's attempt to really make its photos much more competitive than than what's out there Oh without a doubt one of the interesting things that the new photo features can do is automatically stitch together panoramas it can tell when photos look like they have a seam between them and so it can stitch those together there's also the ability to do automatic gifing those short little animated gifts this can now do that automatically which is really quite incredible well thanks for all of that inside Thank You den for cnet I'm Dan Farber thanks for watching