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Google Services (Products) annoyances

I'm rather furious that my photos captioned with specific words (scientific names of plants) are not returned when I search my photos; rather Google is returning a bunch of my photos that look like the plants but are 90% of the time incorrect identifications.  This is absolutely bonkers.  How hard is it to index my captions and return the photos that have the search terms in those captions rather than doing a piss poor job of image recognition?  I know for a fact Google is already indexing my photos based upon my captions because when I add a correct species ID, the search results improve to about 15 to 20% correct "similar-looking" plants, but still missing many of the photos I manually captioned with the scientific name. Ludicrous and infuriating!

Review of apps capable of backing up text messages.

MessageSync is still the best, right through to Nougat. All messages backed up and restored along with conversations that have more than one participant and significantly: MMS too!! But it has problems with emoji's. Also, the function within the app, "Synchronize" messages with backup file or "merge" with backup file is funky *see reviews for the app on Google Play Store. JS Backup - Restore & Migrate seems good but has problems with MMS; emoji's and group conversations seem okay. Also, JS Backup tells you how many SMS and MMS items to backup before you actually run the backup. Titanium Backup Root is excellent but requires root. Also, due to a change in the location of the com.android.providers.telephony folder with Nougat, TiBu has problems restoring to the folder. Method to make it work is as follows: Recommend adding your Google accounts and Whatsapp accounts so that all your contacts are restored and conversations have proper names prior to