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Those folks at Google sure are busy this week. Remember Writely, the online word processor Google bought awhile back and only recently opened back up to the public. Well it’s gone. Google brings us another inch closer to the always rumored Google office suite with Docs and Spreadsheets, a tighter integration of its two main suite components. All that remains are presentation and database apps and Google office suite will exist, though in true Google fashion it will likely be named Docs, Spreadsheet, Database and Presentation.

My first impression is that they did a pretty good job putting the two together. Writely looks and works pretty much the same but sports the Google color scheme. There is a new list view of all your documents and spreadsheets which also shows which are shared and with whom. Sharing is definitely one of the nicest features of online versus desktop applications and Google does it pretty well.

While not on par with Microsoft Office feature-for-feature, Docs and Spreadsheets is more than enough for what I need and I’d assume the majority of users. If you haven’t checked it out yet head on over and give it a quick try. If you’re already a Gmail user you’ve already got an account.