Google Labs
- Google Labs may also refer to Google X Lab, an innovation lab of Google.
Google Labs was a page created by Google to demonstrate and test new projects. Google described Google Labs as "a playground where our more adventurous users can play around with prototypes of some of our wild and crazy ideas and offer feedback directly to the engineers who developed them."[1]
Google also uses an invitation-only phase for trusted testers to test projects including Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Wave and many of these have their own "labs" webpages for experimental projects unique to each product.
In 2006, all Google Labs products had a consistent logo, using the flask, and a gray title, as opposed to other color-coded Google products, such as Google News and Google Maps. This warns users that the product may contain bugs, and could be unfit for general use.
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[edit] Closure
On 20 July 2011, Google announced that Google Labs would be phased out in order to provide better focus on non-experimental applications.[2] Google said that they will end the experiments and try to put them in different products, like Experimental Search, Gmail and more.
Google confirmed in September 2011 that Google Labs would be closed.[3] Google Labs closed on 17 October 2011 for some users.
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[edit] References
- ^ "Google Lab FAQ". http://www.googlelabs.com/faq.html#whatis.
- ^ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewer-arrows.html
- ^ Apostolou, Natalie. "Google does a mean spring clean". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/google_shuts_ten_services/. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
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