Google Cleans House

Just in case you’re coming to the party late, Google announced in late July that it would be shutting down Google Labs itself, an area of the search engine’s website where visitors could check out (read: play with) a number of different projects and features that Google’s engineers had created. These were still in the experimental stage, but periodically a project would graduate and become a full-fledged service, such as personalized search. So with Google Labs closing, what would become of its projects? It is expected that Page will graduate some projects and ax others. Indeed, Google Labs…