Is Google News the longest beta ever?

Posted by | January 18, 2005 | search engines | No Comments

Google News has been in ‘Beta’ for nearly two and a half years.

Several million beta testers a day for nearly a thousand days, i.e. more than a billion (non unique) beta testers.

That’s quite some QA.
I wonder if this is a record?

Google launches news service – Computerworld