Gmail labs soon available in 49 languages

Google, the world’s leading search engine and email services provider, has announced that its Gmail Labs will soon be available internationally in 49 languages.

The company said it was excited with the development, which coincides with the company’s fifth birthday.

Says Eric Tholomé, director of product management at Google: “We’re excited to launch Gmail Labs internationally around Gmail’s fifth birthday. The rapid innovation in Gmail Labs makes it a perfect example of how Gmail has grown over the last five years: creating a more intuitive, powerful and innovative email programme for users.”

Gmail Labs is an experimental feature playground within the free email service Gmail.

The feature offers users useful and quirky tools to enhance and personalise their email inboxes. Initially launched in English in 2008, Gmail Labs will now be available around the globe in local languages. Users can enable and disable Labs features individually with just a few clicks. Some of the features include an undo send function, to retract an email for up to five seconds after it has been sent.