Gmail Labs A Playground Of Features

Users of Google's web-based email service received a little something extra as Google opened a testing ground for new tweaks to try in Gmail.

When Gmail debuted, it held one significant feature the competition was not offering: a fat 1GB of storage space. In a time when web-based email services meted out storage by the megabyte, Gmail presented a welcome change and spurred rivals to expand their storage too.

Google wants its engineers to continue innovating the service, but as an extra benefit they have opened a way for people to try out the latest little tweaks in Gmail. The company announced the addition of Gmail Labs as the way to do this.

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Should something go completely wrong with Labs, as Coleman warned could happen with these experimental add-ons, an option to