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Google shuts down Google Labs

...Google is shutting down its product prototyping facility, Google Labs, the company has announced. In a blog post by research chief... Read more

21 July, 2011 by David Meyer

Google spreads Mail search across to Docs

...to the mail platform, people need to enable it from within the Google Labs options. Once added, the usual 'search mail' button is replaced with... Read more

19 August, 2010 by Ben Woods

Larry Page's identity crisis: the dead weight of Google+

...putting "more wood behind fewer arrows". The reject arrows were the wonderful Google Labs, which had given the company Maps and Docs, and otherwise-useful... Read more

7 April, 2012

Google folds more of its failing products

...with Postini), Google Notebook and Sidewiki. In the second round, Google shuttered Google Labs, Code Search, Buzz, the bought-in Jaiku product, and the Boutiques... Read more

23 November, 2011

Google kills off Wave, Gears and Knol in project cull

The third wave of service closures puts an end to the once-hot Wave collaboration tools, the Gears offline web apps plug-in and the Knol knowledge-sharing platform, among other failed products Read more

23 November, 2011 by David Meyer

Google silences Buzz and kills off Code Search

...web for open-source code. Friday also saw the shuttering of the Google Labs product prototyping facility — a move that Google announced in July... Read more

17 October, 2011

5 Tips for using Google+

...account or close down Google+ the way it closed Google Lively, Wave, Google Labs and other properties. It's even more important to use a... Read more

22 July, 2011

Google's Swiffy tool converts Flash to HTML 5

...A new tool from Google Labs called Swiffy is taking aim at Adobe Flash files on the... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Democratising machine learning; ask the right questions

...Google's prediction API comes in; this service is coming out of Google labs today and now it's a live service, with an SLA... Read more

11 May, 2011

I feel like Stephen Fry

...serious questions for Free Software… But anyway, here are my top 6 Google Labs features: • Priority Inbox: Not so much labs, more out of the... Read more

28 February, 2011

Google Instant does search as you type

...expand to other languages and domains in the coming weeks and month". Google Labs also unveiled Google Scribe, a predicative text editor. If you pause... Read more

8 September, 2010

Google reportedly testing 'streaming' search features

...on the new feature as it has not yet made it to Google Labs - Google's experimental development environment for new apps, add-ons and... Read more

23 August, 2010
SAP leads businesses into augmented reality

SAP leads businesses into augmented reality

...to innovation with the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center. It's modelled on Google Labs. We create prototypes based on our ideas, or ideas we get... Read more

30 July, 2010 by Ben Woods

Facebook starts to roll out Questions (beta)

...interests to give you an answer quickly.” Aardvark is now available in Google Labs. However, Google has not exactly shone at converting its social networking... Read more

28 July, 2010

Google opens public beta for simple Android apps

...small subset of the functionality that's available in the Android SDK". Google Labs provides a series of tutorials to help people learn how to... Read more

12 July, 2010 by David Meyer

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