


Existing users of the application will still be able to use the application. On February 12, 2016, Google announced that the service as well as the application will be discontinued on and March 15, 2016, respectively. Once the storage is full, uploaded photos are automatically resized to fit the resolution for unlimited storage. Videos shorter than 15 minutes also don't count towards the limit. Storage was unlimited for photos of resolution less than 2048x2048 pixels for Google+ users, and for photos of resolution less than 800x800 for everyone else. It allowed users with a Google account to store and share photos in public albums with an initial free storage offering of 15 GB, that is shared with Gmail and Google Drive. It was discontinued in May 2016 and succeeded by Google Photos which does not support sharing photo albums on the public world wide web. The service links with Google's photo organizing desktop program Picasa. Picasa Web Albums ( PWA) was an image hosting and sharing web service from Google, often compared to Flickr and similar sites.
