Enlarge (credit: Google) Friendly Public Service Announcement: Google might delete some of your photos this week. If you've ever used some specific entries in Google's lengthy instant messaging lineup, namely Google Talk (2005-2013) or Google Hangouts (2013-2022), the photos you shared with contacts landed in a space called the "Album Archive." Album Archive is being shut down this Wednesday, July 19, and the data in it is being deleted. Google's communication around this has not been great.