Exciting changes to Google Search: Google Labs

In addition to ‘Timeline’ and ‘Similar Images’ Google have also released a resource named Google Labs. It isn’t an innovation in itself, more a way of keeping track of the innovations that are in the Google pipeline. It allows users to check up on the armies of developers at Google and track what they’re up to from day to day.

Many are perceiving this as an attempt by Google to open up the process to scrutiny in response to concerns from users that Google is wasting too much time on projects that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. However, according to Google it’s simply part of an overall strategy to not only make the process of innovation more transparent, but to shorten the amount of time between an idea being thought up and it actually ending up out there in the real world. 

R J Pittman, Google’s director of product management had this to say, “We are not especially sure where the industry is headed or the economy is headed but we do know that innovation is alive and well at Google.”

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