Google Docs and Sites: 2009 in Review

As the new year begins, we wanted to reflect on 2009 and highlight our favorite additions to Google Docs and Sites. We've shed the beta label and added more than 45 new features including:

• Shared folders to simplify collaboration with friends and colleagues
  
• The Google Docs viewer, making it easy to view more files in your browser
  
• Templates, automatic and hierarchical navigation, monetization, maps, and photos in Google Sites
  
• Opening up the Public Template Gallery so everyone can share their templates with the world
  
• Logic branching, new themes, and more in Google forms
  
• Improved translation features in documents, spreadsheets and Google Sites
  
• Spreadsheet editing on mobile devices and sheet protection
  
• An easier way to give us your feedback and feature requests
  
• Improved consistency and better sharing emails across Google Docs
  
• Improvements to presentations, including co-editor presence, tables and better object control with drawings
  
• Features for the busy student just in time for back to school

We hope you enjoyed the 2009 additions to Google Docs and look forward to bringing you lots more in 2010.

On behalf of the entire Google Docs team, Happy New Year!

Posted by: Peter Harbison, Product Marketing Manager