Gmail’s new Labs feature – Mail Goggles

Before Christmas I suggested that Google may have reached its apex during 2008, especially as it had, for the first time, allowed a dubious new feature – SearchWiki – to infiltrate the product that sits at its core – search. And over the weekend, Google spent an hour saying that every site in its index [...]

As the year draws to an end and I retreat home to wrap presents and eat mince pies, I find myself wondering if 2008 will go down as the year in which Google’s fall from grace began. Don’t get me wrong – there’s no way I’m forecasting doom for Google. It’s not Woolworths. But a [...]