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Groups comes out of beta

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, September 21, 2006
17 years ago3,568 views

I don't know if this is new, but Google Groups no longer has the beta tag.
http://groups.google.com
Think that makes 12 non beta products now

Mambo [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Hah – well found, mate. Shame it's not one of their better ones.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Google Groups was "out of beta" before, of course.

It's only when they introduced the "Google Groups 2" interface (which, it seems to me, most people don't like as much) that they went back into beta again.

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

someone should update this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups

[put at-character here]Roger,
what Google Groups 2?
you got a picture?

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

you meant this page for example??
http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2004/07/09/google-groups-2-beta/

Sam Davyson [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

David: Beta message removed.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

To be honest, I'd forgotten it was still in beta! They stopped using the groups-beta.google.com domain quite a while back.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

13 august 2006 : no "beta" on the logo :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Google-Groups-Listview.png

I use google groups every day, and I don't remember a change in the logo so this must be an old news
sorry

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I think TOMHTML is right.

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

<< David: Beta message removed. >>

i know.. i meant the Google Groups 2

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

David: For a while the Google Groups 2 interface was only accessible through labs.google.com, then eventually they changed the main Groups pages to use the Groups 2 interface (which is now "out of beta").

Here's a reference to "Groups 2" as being a "graduate of labs":
http://labs.google.com/

You can't access the old labs pages in the wayback machine because they're blocked via Google's robots.txt.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Don't digg it :
http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Groups_Strips_Beta_Tag

BTW, they didn't remove the "beta" here :
http://groups.google.com/support

Sam Davyson [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

David: I meant on the Wiki article.

Mambo [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

TOMHTML, sorry, i was the one that submitted that article. i thought it was quite exciting :-P

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