Search Engine Journal

When Google Docs Presentation was launched sometime in September, it was a much awaited tool that was being touted as the missing piece to Google’s web-based application suite’s final success. Unfortunately, the missing piece has in itself a missing piece as well. While it was a nifty web tool back the, Google Presentation lacks the ability to let you embed the presentation that you created on your own website/blogs or social media profiles.

I remember Matt Cutts doing some tweaks to make this possible. But the step was not what Google Docs’ users wanted. The embed feature must reside right into the Google Docs’ page. And so we asked and the guys at Google Docs listened. The embed feature is now on, using the usual copy and paste code method, after you publish your presentation.

And as a bonus, the good old Google Docs programmers even added some useful features such as:

• image insertion via drag and drop method (imagine web browser windows as your dekstop windows)
• rearranging slides becomes easier by dragging or duplicating slide and placing it on the desired sequence of slides
• bakcground change can now be applied to all slides easily

If you are a big fan of Google Docs, this is certainly a good feature and would definitely bring more users into the Google Docs fold. Now, its time to stop using those other presentation/slide widgets which loads in up in ages when embedded in your blog or website. Google presentation’s embed feature works like YouTube videos, make the task as easy as possible.