Gmail Labs Graduates Six Features And Retires Five

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Google launched Gmail Labs as a way to test out the more new features before settling on if they must be a part of the regular product. And in those experimental features some of them have become very important to users and some of them are just of no use. After each interval, although, Google plans to ‘graduate’ some tools and make them a part of Gmail, but also remove the ones that did not help users much. The latest wave sees six features making the cut and five more getting retired.

Mark Knichel, Software Engineer At Google Wrote -

Labs started out with 13 features and quickly grew to 60, with even more on the way. We’ve received countless comments and kept an eye on our stats: some of these experimental features were adopted by millions and others trickled along with little usage. A couple have already graduated from Labs and we’ve already retired one: Tasks was the first to become a regular part of Gmail, Right-side Labels was retired when we updated the way labels work, and Offline Gmail graduated a couple months back. Today, true to the original intent of Gmail Labs, we’re graduating six more features and retiring five.

Graduating:

1. Search Autocomplete
2. Go To Label
3. Forgotten Attachment Detector
4. YouTube Previews
5. Custom Label Colors
6. Vacation Dates

Retiring:

1. Muzzle
2. Fixed Width Font
3. Email Addict
4. Location in Signature
5. Random Signature

Notable among retiring features is Email Addict, one of the original 13 experiments, an add-on that blocked Gmail for 15 minutes after a period of time to allow (force) users to take a break. However, we hope the new introduced features are helpful for all Gmail users.

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