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Where is the evidence for this? Anecdotally, all the evidence seems to point in the opposite direction: Self-driving cars, Google Glass, Project Loon.

Even in front-end web (the area I'm most familiar with) they are doing lots of exciting and experimental stuff with R&D driven frameworks like AngularJS and Polymer.

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I think the evidence that most (outsiders) see is that "labs.google.com" seems kind of bare. One item that I found useful in there was something that let you type in a few related words / phrases, and it would complete the list for you. Useful for finding other items in a particular category when you knew of a few examples, but didn't know the specific category name (example: what comes after primary, secondary, tertiary). Now it's gone.

That one made it into production.

Open up a google doc spreadsheet, type the words in a column, then use the little pull-down at the bottom right. Lists of languages, ponies, whatever will autocomplete.

Possibly I'm misunderstanding your directions, but it doesn't seem to actually do what the parent said. Using the little expand-and-fill thing just repeats the contents of the cells selected. (Unless you have an obvious sequence of numbers, in which case it continues.)

Hold down <option> (or <cntrl> on win/linux) while doing it.

Okay, that's cool. Radically undiscoverable, but cool.

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