Google is celebrating its 10th birthday and lauding the success of its growing portfolio, but a 'beta' status still accompanies some of the web giant's most famous applications, such as Gmail, Google Docs and Google Finance. The search firm has argued that this is because it adopts a different definition of 'beta' to other firms.
Google Docs was launched well over a year ago, and Gmail testing began as early as April 2004, but the firm maintains that the applications still need to undergo further engineering before they are fully released. "We have a broad notion of what constitutes 'beta'," said a Google spokesman. "We do not tend to get hung up on beta as a stage. No one in the company keeps an overall track of what is in beta and what is not." The spokesman dismissed any possibility of a connection between the beta status of Gmail and Goole Docs with problems users may have experienced with their Google accounts in recent months.
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