It’s not much of a secret that Google is always working on and testing new features or versions of its products. When it is satisfied with the current state of a feature or just needs a lot of data, it quietly serves the test versions to a small subset of users. With hundreds of millions of people using its most popular products, it only needs a very small portion of them for conclusive results.
However, most of the time, the test subjects are Google employees themselves and almost … (read more)