Google Closed the Lab Experiments, But Gmail Still Alive

Google announced Wednesday it will slowly shuttering Google Labs, the experimental site for projects that are not all the products.

That news prompted fears and press reports that the popular "experimental" features of Gmail and other products also would be killed.

Great Gmail users have come to rely on features such as laboratories "Undo," which gives you a few seconds after hitting send to revoke the order, to the extent that they now feel as permanent features .

However, Google spokesman Jason Freidenfelds Wired.com says the labs into products such as Gmail and maps are not scheduled to be eliminated in the new push to limit and focus the search advertising giant.

(The blog post announcing the closure of laboratories is titled "More wood behind the arrow under").

"We have no plans to change product channels such as Gmail Labs experiments or laboratories maps," said Freidenfelds. "We will continue to experiment with new features in each of our products."

However, a number of software projects in Google Labs properly retired, and some will graduate to full function / status of the product, according to the blog post from Google.

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Google also says that most of the products of the laboratories have become Android - Google Goggles, for one - are still available on Android Market. As for the timing of those changes?

"We have no specific details to share yet, but we will update our users as we move into the Google Labs site," said Freidenfelds.

So if there is laboratory projects you like: Swiffy say something like Google, which converts Flash files to HTML5, or whiz-bang Body 3D Google, get the most use of them as possible now and pray that they are allowed to graduate.

As for why Google Labs is off, Freidenfelds suggested paying some attention to the CEO, Larry Page's comments recent earnings call about the company's concentration of resources:

"Greater attention has also been another important feature for me this quarter - more wood behind the arrow under last month, for example, Google announced that we will be closing PowerMeter Health and Google ..

"We have also made substantial internal work simplification and rationalization of our product lines. While much of that work has not become visible from the outside, I am very happy with our progress here.

"The focus and priorities are crucial given the incredible opportunities. In fact I see more opportunities for Google now more than ever. Because believe it or not we are still in the early stages of what we do."