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Most services offered by Google are stuck-up in labs, even after months or years of being functional. Google Labs is actually a showcase of ideas which are not yet ready for prime time. Google prefers telling that a service is “labs” instead of telling that it’s in “beta” (Gmail is an exception here). Occasionally, we’ve seen some service come out of labs, but it’s a very rare thing to happen. Surprisingly, Google put two new services out of Google Labs: Google Reader and GOOG-411.
Google Reader Team posted on their blog that they are breaking up with labs. You can no longer see the labs label in their logo. They’ve also made Google Reader multilingual. Prior to this, Google Reader was only available in English, but now they support French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, English (UK), Japanese, and Korean.
Another service to graduate from Google Labs is GOOG-411. It is a toll-free number, which can be used to search local business for free. Previously, the service was called GOOG-411 Experimental, but now they’ve shortened it to just GOOG-411.
Google Labs lists 16 projects which are yet to be graduated. I expect Google Trends and Google Page Creator to be next!
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wrote, on September 20th, 2007
Thx for this
When i read this on the official google reader blog 2 days before,I misunderstood it to be saying that they are fooling around people in the 1st and second paragraph and wrote on my site that they were fooling people around.
Lolz
wrote, on September 20th, 2007
India is in the first list of countries whenever any Google services become available.But here i don’t see their google reader support any indian languages.any specific reason?
wrote, on September 25th, 2007
In case anyone is under the impression that Google is being particularly innovative with Goog-411, they should know that we at 1-800-Free411 have been doing free directory assistance for quite some time now. Unlike Google, though, we have business, residential, and gov’t listings (Google just has business) and we’ve got live operator support as a backup in case the voice tech can’t understand you (Google has no such backup). Plus, we’re a small company without Google’s deep pockets that come from peppering every web page with ads — we’re not evil.