Most wanted Google features survey

Google Blogoscoped is running another survey, this time on Which Google Features Do You Want Most?

All questions ask for a 1 to 5 response as to how much you want a given feature, and the image related questions include

• Higher storage in Picasa Web Albums
• Search for images using image comparisons
• Thumbnails of a page next to the web search result
• A Google API for image search
• Google Sets for images

Currently around 200 people have filled in the survey (again, remember this is a self selected group, of largely expert users) - it would probably get a lot more replies if it was easier to fill in - [Philipp, please use radio buttons not a drop down on future surveys!]

In the results so far, both the more Picasa web storage, and image searching by comparison are in the top 10 of wanted features (out of 53).  The Picasa web storage issue however is fairly polarized - with high numbers of replies for both 5 and 1 on the scale.

The comments on the survey are perhaps more informative than the results themselves.  These include

• a request for more integration, to make it easy to post "picasa [web albums] images + google videos easily on blogger"
• ... and a follow on request to include on the page creation tool
• "Why does picasaweb use a different contact photo than Gmail? Why can't I choose a picasaweb photo as my gmail contact photo?"
• Why dont the services linked to from the corner bookmarks in Gmail (which includes 'photos' which links to Picasweb) also offer corner bookmarks to be consistent

There's also the plea "Google, don't follow this survey, and continue to create services which made us "wowww" !"