Google Labs is over, the company announced today in a short post to the official Google Blog. Labs was the official home of many of Google's experimental projects from a map of the human body to a Gmail plug in that and all that it offered in the past If you answered in the affirmative then we are
Google says it's winding down Google Labs a website that let users play with new products that Google engineers were experimenting with. The announcement came in a blog post aptly named More wood behind fewer arrows.
At Google Labs Google's employees had 20 percent time a practical symbol of innovation where engineers could spend one day a week working on projects that aren't necessarily in our job descriptions as described by an engineer on Google's blog in 2006. You can use the time to develop something new or if you see something that's broken you can use the time to fix it. And this is how I recently worked up a new feature for Google Reader.
The shutdown of Google Labs sets a new road to the future of innovation at Google. While many people hold the service as crucial for Google's strength in innovative adventures the Labs' demise sends a message to investors and consumers that Google has core businesses to serve says Whit Andrews an analyst with Gartner Inc. reported Bloomberg. This makes Google address innovation in a different way. It means that it will be less likely that you'll create something cool and see how it works. This means we need a business goal and a business direction.
Many of the Labs products that are Android apps today will continue to be available on Android Market. The Google Labs website will continue to announce the progress of its closure.
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