Most companies largely hide their product development activities from the prying public -- as well as media and competitors eyes -- until they either trash the product or launch it.
But Google isn't like most companies and Google Labs is no ordinary place to peak into the product development ideas being worked on by Googleites. It is a plethora of creativity and it is just plain fun to poke around the Google Labs website at www.googlelabs.com or accessible under the "more" and "even more" links from the main Google home page.
Google Labs has been the beta site for many of Google's innovations: such as Google Docs, Google Groups, GOOG-411 and more.
A couple of the latest experiments: Google Transliteration. You select the language you want to translate from English to say Hebrew, and it automatically types the correct letters. A very cool tool and I imagine would make a great phone app for travelors.
Here's a great one for real estate agents: Google City Tours at http://citytours.googlelabs.com.
Just enter an address and it instantly assembles tour of your local city. Very cool.
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