Tag Archives: GoogleLabs

Gmail advanced search gets autocomplete in ‘from’ and ‘to’ fields, three lab features become standard

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Coming on the heels of Google announcing additional languages for Gmail search, the dev team out in Mountain View is rolling out a few more tweaks. For starters, when you use advanced search, you’ll now see autocomplete predictions in the “from” and …


Google Play Music switches on labs features: HTML5 player, star ratings and notifications

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We’re so used to Google Labs features on commonly used services like mail and maps that we often forget they’re technically experimental and now Music has a few of its own. The new features available on the desktop version of its web player include to…


Google Swiffy extension exports Flash to HTML5, ActionScript fans rejoice

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If you were bummed that you’d have to pick up some new coding skills when Adobe announced that Flash for mobile was finito, cheer up friends. Harken back to the summer months when Google unveiled its Swiffy conversion tool that turns those aging S…


Google X lab is full of smart people with crazy dreams and frozen yogurt machines, probably

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A Google lab so secret that even some of the company’s own employees don’t know of its existence? That’s Google X — or it was, before The New York Times ran a profile on the lab’s super secret goings-on at an undisclosed location somewhere in the S…


Google finally pulls the plug on Buzz amid ‘fall sweep’

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Before there was Google+ there was Google Buzz, the company’s big effort to stake a claim in the social networking space. That, of course, didn’t exactly work out for the search giant, and it even managed to spark some lawsuits and attract the eye o…