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Posted AT 11:00 PM EST on 05/09/08

Google @ 10

MATT HARTLEY AND GRANT ROBERTSON

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

Perpetual Beta Google is a work in progress, and always will be. The Mountain View, Calif., company exists in a state of perpetual beta, and it's a corporate philosophy that has helped drive the company's seemingly boundless innovation. In technology parlance, the “beta” tag is applied to software that is launched on a trial basis to work out any kinks before the official version is released.

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