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Google has announced that it is open sourcing code and publishing data under a liberal license from its Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) project. The project has been abandoned in Google's new quest for focus.One tool that has been open sourced is HOpS, heliostat optical simulation, which does exac... |
30 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Google is shutting down projects left and right, in an effort to concentrate focus on the big things that have an impact. Whether Larry Page's strategy is the right one remains to be seen; in the meantime, Google continues to shed off weight.
Late last week, Google announced that several projects were being shu... |
23 January 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Google is not done with the spring, summer, fall and winter cleaning. It just announced that several other tools and services will be shut down, open-sourced or merged into other existing products. Several products that it acquired are getting the axe, but some of its own projects are being put to sleep as well.
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21 January 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Google's new found interest in Google Reader hasn't stopped at the redesign that it unveiled not so long ago, to quite a few criticism it has to be said. Reader is getting a Labs section of its own, titled Experiments and only holding one feature for now "smooth scrolling."
Once enabled, the feature adds a... |
1 December 2011
10:34 GMT |
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Here's another Google Labs casualty that ended up a success story, or, at least, ended up surviving, Google Body, or Body Browser, an impressive WebGL demo that provides a model of the human body, complete with internal organs, bones and so on, in the browser.
Google has announced that, while it won't be... |
23 September 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Google Correlate, a search analysis tool Google saved from its defunct Labs project, has gotten a really cool feature that enables users to find search trends by drawing a graph line. It may not seem particularly useful, but it's quite fun.
There is actually a practical use for the tool, dubbed Search by Draw... |
5 September 2011
10:44 GMT |
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Under the leadership of new CEO Larry Page, Google is focusing on fewer products with bigger impact. As such, may side-projects, obscure products and ones that never really got off the ground, or got the chance to, are being put to sleep.Already, Google has said it is shutting down Google Labs and many of its experim... |
3 September 2011
07:41 GMT |
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More of Google Labs' casualties are becoming known. Among them are a couple of related search tools, Google Squared and the older Google Sets. Both these tools dealt with structured data and organizing data sets gathered from the chaos that is the web.
That said, the tools probably got very little usage on th... |
29 August 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Google announced that it will be shutting down Labs, its one-site-fits-all project which was home to anything that didn't fit easily anywhere else or was just too wacky. But as Google is focusing on fewer projects it's been looking at things to kill and Google Labs is a great target.Still, not all Labs expe... |
10 August 2011
11:11 GMT |
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Google recently announced that it is shutting down the dedicated Labs website. Google Labs housed all sorts of experimental apps and services, that didn't fit anywhere else at Google. Now, projects have been sent to new homes, the lucky ones, but some will be shut down.One of the ones getting the axe is App Inve... |
10 August 2011
08:40 GMT |
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Google has announced that it is integrating Google Scribe an experimental text editor with word completion and suggestions, with Blogger, albeit the experimental version, Blogger in Draft.Google Scribe is an interesting tool, though it's more a solution looking for a problem than the other way around. As you typ... |
9 August 2011
11:39 GMT |
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Google is clearly undergoing a big transformation, a rather slow but noticeable one. As with each transformation, some things get left behind, Google has just announced that its Labs program will be shut down.
Individual labs experiments will be either rolled into other products, live as stand-alone ones or be kil... |
21 July 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Google has introduced a very interesting tool for researchers trying to find trends in search data. Google Correlate is a Labs tool that enables users to upload data sets and then find if there are search trends that match those in the supplied data. They can also determine if there are search terms that follow the s... |
26 May 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Google is expanding the usefulness of its Public Data Explorer tool by finally enabling regular users to upload their own data for analysis, visualization and sharing. There is already a wealth of data from reliable sources in the Google Public Data Explorer, but this should make the tool a valuable resource to a lot... |
17 February 2011
08:33 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Google Shared Spaces sprung up as a way for Wave gadgets to live on even as the platform is retired. At the time, there were some bugs and it didn't seem like a finished product. Google is now making the official announcement and the Labs experiment is ready for everyone."In August, Go... |
22 December 2010
04:34 GMT |
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Google Wave may be dead as far as Google is concerned, but its components are getting recycled and the technology behind it repurposed for other projects. One of the latest examples of this is also one of the stranger ones. Google Shared Spaces is a Labs experiment which provides a platform for all of the gadgets cre... |
20 December 2010
06:48 GMT |
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One of the most popular Instant Messaging clients on the market, Beejive has landed on the Android platform. Beejive is an all-in-one messaging client with a friendly user interface, that enables users to stay connected with all their friends regardless of the messaging service used.Further, the IM supports a a wide ... |
13 October 2010
11:28 GMT |
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The building of software solutions for Google's Android operating system has just got a little easier, as a new tool is available for those interested in the matter, namely the App Inventor for Android. The new solution enables the development of applications for the Android platform through the use of a web br... |
12 July 2010
06:30 GMT |
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One of the reasons why Google introduced the Labs feature was so that it had a place to add interesting features that might not be useful to a larger audience, but that could be very valued by some. One such feature has just been introduced to the Google Maps Labs section, distance measurements. As the name clearly r... |
22 June 2010
08:16 GMT |
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Google's Labs experiments have proven quite successful and quite a hotbed for innovation. With the Labs feature, Google developers feel more at ease experimenting with wild features and tools knowing they won't ruin anyone's experience by doing so. The company has been adding the Labs section to all of... |
11 March 2010
09:57 GMT |
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Google introduced Gmail Labs as a way to test out the more experimental or niche features before deciding if they were to be a part of the regular product. Some of the Labs experiments are very important for the people that use them, but most users don't need them, so they're stuck in Labs. Every once in a ... |
25 February 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Google products wear their beta tag with pride. Gmail was in beta for five years before, reluctantly, shedding the label to the disapproval of nostalgic users. The company always updates its products too and runs maybe hundreds of live tests at any given time. Even so, it still had the need for a dedicated testing s... |
12 February 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Google is enhancing its recently introduced Fusion Tables data management tool, which is labeled as a Labs project, with the release of a dedicated API. The API will enable users with dynamic data sets to update them without having to log into the Fusion Tables site or having to manually add the new data. This way th... |
15 December 2009
11:22 GMT |
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Google enjoys a very solid and comfortable lead in search right now and this is true for most types of searches, including image search. This doesn't mean that it can rest on its laurels, if anything Google is the company that showed others just that, so it's now launching a totally new way of discovering ... |
18 November 2009
03:32 GMT |
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Google Labs is a great place to test out new technology without risking integrating it into the main services before it is proven. Every once in a while though a technology is popular and mature enough that it gets promoted and introduced to the proper product. One interesting feature revealed last spring, when Googl... |
28 October 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Google is expanding its Labs program to its set of Webmaster Tools with the launch of two new features that many may find useful. The “Malware details” tool does what its name implies, namely it gives website owners details about what portion on their sites may be infected with malicious code, making it e... |
13 October 2009
11:06 GMT |
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Google is announcing some new features for Google Insights for Search, the company's search data analysis tool, that will allow users to see the future of a search trend to supplement the past data it currently shows. The feature isn't enabled for all search terms but there are some that follow a similar tr... |
18 August 2009
06:37 GMT |
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There is a reason why the Mountain view-based search giant decided to unveil Google Wave at the Google I/O developers conference, namely because its success will largely depend on the developers and what they will make with the tools it provides them with. Google Wave has a lot of rough edges for now but the company ... |
29 May 2009
06:29 GMT |
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The Google Page Creator service won't have the chance to make it to the Google Apps, because the company is planning to completely replace it with its new Google Sites. In preparation for this, sign-up for the Google Page Creator has already been closed, while an announcement on the home page of the project noti... |
4 August 2008
04:21 GMT |
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