Goodbye Google Labs

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

logoI am disappointed that it was announced that Google Labs will be discontinued. It was Google's beta testing Web site for new products.

I saw the news on the Google blog with the explanation that it was “prioritizing...product efforts.”

Admittedly, some of the Lab projects have been frivolous, but that's also where GMail, Google Maps, Google alerts and Google Groups came from. It's not clear which projects will disappear but GMail and Google Maps Lab products will not be affected.

“We’ll continue to push speed and innovation—the driving forces behind Google Labs—across all our products, as the early launch of the Google+ field trial last month showed,” according to their blog.


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