Google is reinventing search itself as it moves past Android and into our crazy future

Google I/O is, far and away, Google's most important single event of the year, where CEO Sundar Pichai presents his grand vision for the company in the year to come. So it was a little baffling, at first blush, that Google -- a search company, which makes its money from search advertising -- would spend so much time talking about Google Photos, its photo-sharing service, and camera-related apps in general. At the same time, it makes perfect sense, in its own way. It's the same old Google, adapted for a world where cameras rule over keyboards. Way back in 2009, it launched an app called Google Goggles that let you snap a picture of, say, a book, and search for it online.