why beta

does anyone know why froogle is still in beta after so many years in existence?

 

isn't gmail beta too ?

 

I guess google doesn't make things 'non' beta till it becomes famous beta means - it still doesn't work. And I don't think it does.

 

gmail isn't famous?

 

You got me there buddy I think gmail being beta has more to do with maturity of AJAX than anything else It still crashes my safari many times.

 

gmail is beta too, and it's better than it's stable competitors maybe google likes that beta sign

 

well this is because you're using safari
FF > SAFARI

 

Because products are always a work in progress. Thats why one will see such things as "new and improved" on products that are like tide, pepsi, coke, nike et cetera. A work in progress, how many things is Gmail updating and improving ever few months. Thats why, its not a completed version or a final product as of yet,

 

I guess labeling things beta is the in thing to do

 

I trust betas from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. But no others

 

Beta just means they can take it away if the want. At the end of the day if you're getting traffic from Base/Product that converts on a regular basis, you should have little worry about the 'beta' label.