Google Labs was a page created by Google to demonstrate and test new Google projects. Google calls Google Labs,
| “ | 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] | ” |
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—From Google |
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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.
Google announced that in September of 2011, they will be discontinuing Google Labs. [2]
Google Labs closed on October 17, 2011 for some users.
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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.
Currently the chief engineers of Google Labs are:[3]
On July 20, 2011, Google has decided to phase Google Labs out in order to provide better focus on non-experimental applications.[4] Google said that they will end the experiments and try to put them in different products, like Experimental Search, Gmail and more.
| “ | In many cases, this will mean ending Labs experiments—in others we’ll incorporate Labs products and technologies into different product areas. | ” |
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—From The Official Google Blog |
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