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Just to clarify for those confused, this is not Google Forms. Google Surveys was apparently an entire separate product.
Can't wait for the Onion article proclaiming that Google is discontinuing Google Search. Or will it be an Onion article? Maybe Google will come up with some alternative that can further advance their ad business.
Just to clarify for those confused, this is not Google Forms. Google Surveys was apparently an entire separate product.
LOL. Google built a product so similar to an existing product that customers have trouble telling them apart. Why? So they could cancel it. And so somebody could get a promotion for launching a new product. Oh Google, never change.
I think there was an alternative on HN a while back.
Can't wait for the Onion article proclaiming that Google is discontinuing Google Search. Or will it be an Onion article? Maybe Google will come up with some alternative that can further advance their ad business.
What would the internet look like if Google did indeed sunset Google Search?
I guess this is why they try to leverage that market power to rob their customers by shoving ads in front of organic search results to try and make you pay to get the first hit on a google search of your own unique brand name. Ramping up ads on youtube while screwing the creators and so on. Revenue growth by customer abuse works. At least for a while.
Any business probably has to look at doing a proper risk assessment of having google as a supplier. Their search market dominance means they can, and no doubt do, laugh at those concerns while thumbing their nose at their customers. What else are customers going to do? Then buying ever more washington influence. Is that kind of arrogance the appearance of IBM style cracks in the behmoth? Or not yet? Is it inevitable given failure after failure after failure?
Can't wait for the Onion article proclaiming that Google is discontinuing Google Search. Or will it be an Onion article? Maybe Google will come up with some alternative that can further advance their ad business.
Deprecate search results for all keywords, only serve search ads?
As far as I can see, it allowed paid surveys to ask users a question within a custom android app, within YouTube in the pre roll ad slot, and within 3rd party sites in ad slots.
However, all 3 of those places also had internal surveys done by Google to ask questions like "Which of these brands have you seen an ad for in the past 24 hours?".
I'm not sure if I saw a single survey through Google Surveys in my 10 years on the internet... So it must have been a really niche product.