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Google Docs and the other apps in the Google Drive suite serve as a collaborative tool for cooperative editing of documents in real time. Features Editing Collaboration and revision history

The mobile website for Docs was updated in 2015 with a 'simpler, more uniform' interface, and while users can read files through the mobile websites, users trying to edit will be redirected towards the dedicated mobile app, thus preventing editing on the mobile web.

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In 2014, Google launched a dedicated mobile app for Docs on the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. In June 2014, Google rolled out a dedicated website homepage for Docs, that contains only files created with the service. Users can access all Docs, as well as other files, collectively through the Google Drive website. Google Docs is available as a web application supported on: Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge and Safari web browsers. In March of 2023, Google Docs, along with Slides and Sheets, introduced a new UI theme. In February 2019, Google announced grammar suggestions in Docs, expanding their spell check by using machine translation techniques to help catch tricky grammatical errors. At the same time, Google Chrome App versions of Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides were released, which provided shortcuts to the service on Chrome's new tab page. In October 2012, Google renamed the Google Drive products and Google Documents became Google Docs. In June 2012, Google acquired Quickoffice, a freeware proprietary productivity suite for mobile devices. Improvements based on DocVerse were announced and deployed in April 2010. DocVerse allowed multiple user online collaboration on Microsoft Word documents, as well as other Microsoft Office formats, such as Excel and PowerPoint. In March 2010, Google acquired DocVerse, an online document collaboration company. In July 2009, Google dropped the beta testing status from Google Docs. On March 9, 2006, Google announced that it had acquired Upstartle. It began as an experiment by programmers Sam Schillace, Steve Newman and Claudia Carpenter, trying out the then-new Ajax technology and the 'content editable' function in browsers.

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Writely was a web-based word processor created by the software company Upstartle and launched in August 2005. Google Docs originated from two separate products: Writely and XL2Web.

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Exporting to PDF and EPUB formats are implemented. Google Docs supports opening and saving documents in the standard OpenDocument format as well as in Rich text format, plain Unicode text, zipped HTML, and Microsoft Word. Updates have introduced features using machine learning, including 'Explore', offering search results based on the contents of a document, and 'Action items', allowing users to assign tasks to other users. An editor's position is highlighted with an editor-specific color and cursor, and a permissions system regulates what users can do. Edits are tracked by the user making the edit, with a revision history presenting changes. Google Docs allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating with other users in real time. Google Docs is accessible via an internet browser as a web-based application and is also available as a mobile app on Android and iOS and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS. Google Docs is an online word processor included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google, which also includes: Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms, Google Sites and Google Keep.