Google Photo is opaque and unreliable and keeps degrading and corrupting your photos, and if I'm not misremembering, had data loss issues in a past.
OneDrive doesn't have those problems, but its search is even more unreliable than that in Google Photos.
In both cases, the companies go out of their way to remove any controls over classification, or even user agency in search. Like, how hard would it be to list all of the categories it knows for users to browse, as well as on the photo page for users to know all the buckets the photos land in? They go out of their way to not do that.
Not that there are any better alternatives. For example, Samsung gallery app is just as bad, despite running locally on your phone, and on top of that, has data loss issues that the company refuses to admit or fix. For some reason, tech companies managed to fuck up something as basic as a photo gallery.
OneDrive doesn't have those problems, but its search is even more unreliable than that in Google Photos.
In both cases, the companies go out of their way to remove any controls over classification, or even user agency in search. Like, how hard would it be to list all of the categories it knows for users to browse, as well as on the photo page for users to know all the buckets the photos land in? They go out of their way to not do that.
Not that there are any better alternatives. For example, Samsung gallery app is just as bad, despite running locally on your phone, and on top of that, has data loss issues that the company refuses to admit or fix. For some reason, tech companies managed to fuck up something as basic as a photo gallery.