You can embed a Google Map into a personal website using a HTML code from the map's Menu tab. Here's how to do it.

Google today launched the new Google Maps Embed API, which lets developers generate HTML snippets for embedding Google Maps within their own websites. The API offers location and appearance ...

The new Google Maps Embed API will make it even easier for Webmasters to place Google Maps into Web pages for use by site visitors, according to Google.

As expected, Google Lat Long Blog has announced that you can now embed your Google Maps easily into your web pages. Just go to the map you like, click on “link to this page” at the top right ...

Search giant Google has made its redesigned Google Maps embeddable in websites and Blogs. The embedded maps will function same as the full website and will remember the users past searches and ...

As I mentioned last week, Google was planning on making it easy to embed its maps onto websites without knowledge of the API. Now the dream is a reality. A Google Press Release announces its ...

So using a short URL is important when sharing maps with friends. The new Google Maps did not have this feature, nor did it have the feature to embed maps on your own site.