Google Labs Promotes 6, Kills 5
A graduation day for some, an execution day for others. Ah, the digital circle of life.
Google Labs recently did a bit of housecleaning in its more than 60 features, pulling up nearly as many as it pushed down to web oblivion. The six promoted?
- Search Autocomplete, which works much like the Google home page autocomplete
- Go To Label, which is pretty useless, but whatever
- Forgotten Attachment Detector, which reminds you if you didn’t attach a document when replying to a document with attachments in the first place
- YouTube Previews, which is awesome, and puts Youtube players right in your Gmail
- Custom Label Colors, which are exactly what they sound like
- Vacation Responder, which works much like Outlook’s vacation system
The 5 culled features?
- Muzzle, which I never used anyway
- Fixed Width Font, which was designed for people with smaller monitors, which I suppose is no longer a problem
- Email Addict, which would annoyingly suggest you take a break from email (NEVER!)
- Location in Signature, which was too creepy
- and Random Signature, which would randomly generate a quote for your sig. Because who doesn’t want absolutely no forewarning on what their emails will say?
Source: InformationWeek
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