Picnik has grown to become one of the most popular web-based photo editing sites.

It had a few hundred thousand visitors in January of 2007, and it grew to six million in January 2009.

Google announced that no changes will be made to Picnik for the time being, but the Picnik blog announced that they look forward to the next stage of enhancements to the service. Interestingly, Piknik is the default tool used for editing photos to be uploaded to Flickr (owned by Yahoo). Google says Yahoo (and other sites) can continue to integrate with Picknic.

My Comments

Google has taken some acquisitions (like Writely) and incorporated them into Google Docs. Others like Jaiku have festered. Only time will tell if Google is going to let Picnik wither or if it’ll be merged with Picassa.

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