Flickr is where you go to find photos of anything and everything, whether that's photos from the White House, art, attractions, wildlife, historic images, or pictures of your family pets. It's also one of the best ways to store and share your own digital snaps online.

But if a terabyte of free storage isn't reason enough for you to Flickr, the company just announced a raft of updates, including uploaders, an intelligent new Camera Roll, search, and mobile apps.

Some of the new features, such as Camera Roll, have been in beta test for months. Although Flickr's browser-based Uploadr is powerful and quick, the new installable Uploadr programs enable auto-uploading from folders and SD cards. Photos auto-uploaded by this or the mobile apps are private to you unless you specifically change their privacy settings. The uploader helpfully notifies you of its actions in a toolbar notification.

Camera Roll

Camera Roll is a term that will be familiar to iPhone users. For Flickr users, the term Photo Stream is more common, and Camera Roll is really just a different view of your uploaded photos.

Where Photo Stream has always been chronologically arranged by the date and time of upload and only appears as fairly large tiles, the new Camera Roll view lets you sort by date in small square thumbnails. But the real cool-factor comes with its Magic View, which can sort photos by 60 content types, such as people, animals, landscapes, and so on. It's a pretty awesome display of machine learning, and it's surprisingly accurate on my large photo collection, grouping animals, architecture, landscapes and even subgrouping them. It uses tags for this, so you can correct a miscategorization simply by removing the clearly marked robot tags.

Search

The updated search feature uses the same image intelligence, letting you find photos with more accuracy using new search algorithms. Advanced options let you filter the found photos by color, size, orientation (portrait or landscape), and content type (photo or video).

Mobile Apps

Yahoo claims it gave all the same new powers to its apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, and Android (unfortunately, there's still no official Windows Phone or Windows modern app, despite those platforms' roughly 300 million users). We didn't get a chance to test the new apps for this article, but based on a company-supplied screenshot, they reflect the white background design of the new browser design.

For more on the new Flickr, head to www.flickr.com or update the app from the App Store or from the Play Store. The desktop Uploadr is available for Windows and Mac. Check out PCMag.com's reviews of Flickr and the Flickr iPhone app and Flickr for Android, which will be updated soon.