Indexing & Search Engine: Top 10 Killer Google Labs Apps for Enterprise

Google Labs serves as the testing ground for many of the search engine giant's more experimental features. Whether for search, e-mail or other uses, many of these applications tend to be quirky: for example, Gmail Labs, which contains experimental products for the company's cloud-based e-mail service, has Mail Goggles, which prevents e-mails from being sent until a user had solved a series of math questions designed to stump all but the most sober individuals. Products of Google Labs occasionally end up, either in whole or in part, integrated into Google's larger ecosystem of products. Even if they never reach that point, however, some Labs experiments can still prove useful, even to enterprise users. The following applications go beyond the peculiar or unconventional to be actually useful in a business context. (Mail Goggles, of course, is not on this list.) All these applications are accessible through Googlelabs.com. The Gmail Labs applications require a Gmail account to use.By Nicholas Kolakowski