A new presentation application has been added to search engine Google's range of online software offerings.Google Docs now features the capability to create and share presentations through web browsers and is thought to be a potential rival to Microsoft's PowerPoint software.
The launch comes some seven months after Google first announced on its blog that it was in the process of developing the application.
Users will be able to access their presentations from the same screen as other word processing documents and spreadsheets within Google Docs, and can also edit and share their work in the same way.
More than one collaborator will be able to work with a slide deck at the same time, while communicating with each other via Google Talk.
"From student groups to sales teams, people are turning to the web for help improving both personal and group productivity," commented Sam Schillace, director of engineering for Google Docs.
"Putting documents in the cloud surrounded by easy to use features for collaboration and sharing can save people hours of inefficiency and frustration and even enable new ways of working together."
The presentation application is available in 25 languages and is also accessible to those who use Google Apps.
Google Docs was launched in 2006 and was updated in June this year to allow users to utilise folders instead of tags and to sort documents by collaborator.
