It's probably just me, but I've never found Google Photo's search functionality to be very useful, and can usually find a particular photo in less than ten seco

It's probably just me, but I've never found Google Photo's search functionality to be very useful, and can usually find a particular photo in less than ten seconds manually. This is because I have a really good sense of when something happened, so I can usually scroll to the year and month and it's right there. Also, I ruthlessly prune my photo collection, because once I clear out all the cruft that I don't care about (photos that are blurry, near duplicate, no longer relevant, etc), I have half as many photos to look through. I only keep 500-1000 photos per year, one folder per year, as well as a synced Camera Roll folder with not-yet-processed photos. Not only does this make browsing through my photo collection a much more enjoyable experience, it doesn't take up much space. I have my entire photo collection (11000 photos from the last 12 years) stored locally on my phone in full resolution, as well as backed up in various other locations.