Google Closing Experimental Lab, But Gmail Features Will Survive

Google announced Wednesday it will be slowly shuttering Google Labs, its experimental site for projects that aren't quite products.

That news prompted fear and news reports that popular "experimental" features in Gmail and other products would also be killed.

Heavy users of Gmail -- including me -- have come to rely on Labs features such as "Undo," which gives you a few seconds after hitting send to revoke the command, to the extent they now feel like permanent features.

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