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July 21, 2011 01:14 am GMT

Google's '20 Percent Time' Will Survive The Death of Google Labs

Google announced this morning that it will be shutting down Google Labs, a platform that allowed users to interact and give feedback on experimental products produced by Googlers in their 20 Percent Time.While many were left wondering, Google tells me that the company has no changes to announce with regards to the 20 Percent Time program; killing Labs doesn't mean the discontinuation of the one day a week Googlers get to spend on "projects that aren't necessarily in [their] job descriptions." "We'll continue to devote a subset of our time to newer and experiment projects," Google representative Jason Friedenfelds tells me.

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