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Wasn't that their Picasa acquisition?

I mean… there is a huge stretch between the Picasa they acquired and what Google Photos is today.

Never used Google+, but used Picasa/photos from the beginning.

Picasa was a desktop application. I'm not sure if the web thing has any connection to it other than branding and integration.

Picasa uploaded photos to picasaweb, before Google rebranded it to photos.