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• 09 Jun 08
  

  Arrix Z

  team building

  • Generally speaking products are tested internally on Google staff for weeks if not for months and then refined before being released to the public.
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  • They have just gone through a general code review process to make sure they are safe to run.
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  • The 20% time is part of Google's core ethos.
  • The idea behind Labs is that any engineer can go to lunch, come up with a cool idea, code it up, and ship it as a Labs feature to tens of millions of users
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  • Originally when we launched 25% of email was spam. We caught a lot of that. Over time its grown and grown and currently around 75% of all email is spam and so our job has got a lot harder.
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  • And one of the ways the Gmail Labs fosters a family atmosphere is by simply relaxing in the sunshine every so often with a barbeque, a regular occurrence here at Building 47 and the rest of the Google empire.<!-- E BO -->

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• 08 Jun 08
  

  Akihiko Komada

  Mr Coleman says the features are "Really rough and have gone through no filtering in terms of product analysis or design analysis. They have just gone through a general code review process to make sure they are safe to run."

  Maggie Shiels Keith Coleman

• 07 Jun 08
  

  Steve Bag

  Google BBC

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  Joe Rowe

  And one of the ways the Gmail Labs fosters a family atmosphere is by simply relaxing in the sunshine every so often with a barbeque, a regular occurrence here at Building 47 and the rest of the Google empire.

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  Joe Rowe

  And one of the ways the Gmail Labs fosters a family atmosphere is by simply relaxing in the sunshine every so often with a barbeque, a regular occurrence here at Building 47 and the rest of the Google empire.

  workplace google vacation community

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