Half of Google products still in beta (even Gmail): Why?

Courtesy Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 09/25/2008 - 06:20

The question of why so many Google products are classified "beta" has knocked around the tech press for some time, but begs for an answer today because someone finally took the time to do a count.

According to Web monitoring company Pingdom, 45% of Google's 49 products carry the ubiquitous "beta" tag, including Gmail, which debuted in April 2004.


 

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