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Re: Google Surveys Sunset

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Post by tdeck »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #7
metadat wrote: post #2

> "While we believe in our mission of enabling businesses of all sizes to run custom market research with an easy to use and affordable tool, we do not believe the existing product is the best way to do this going forward. The Surveys team will be working to find new ways to bring the scale & insights of our research network to customers via Google Ads products for advertiser, customer, and market research." Ah, yeah…

For better or worse, big win for Qualtrics and Typeform and big loss for anyone leveraging Gsurveys due to lack of budget.

Are you thinking of Google Forms? It's often used to create surveys but they are different products. Google Surveys essentially created those "answer a survey to access this webpage" popups and has a very limited free tier.

Re: Google Surveys Sunset

#42

Post by tdeck »

oofbey wrote: post #31
chrisfrantz wrote: post #20

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.

These products aren't actually very similar from what I can tell, it's just that Google Surveys has a very niche use case and Google Forms is often used to create surveys.

Re: Google Surveys Sunset

#45

Post by ninth_ant »

wolpoli wrote: post #38
ninth_ant wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Deprecate search results for all keywords, only serve search ads?

Remove the ability to search for keywords, but add a Tictok like interface. The AI will then learn our preference and surface pages we want to see.

But… but… that’s just tiktok. Which probably means you’re right.

Re: Google Surveys Sunset

#46

Post by silisili »

tambeb wrote: post #15

At least the Opinion Rewards app isn't going away. I've made $177 over the years. Not a fortune but it paid for a bunch of app buys and movie rentals.

I used to live right next to a rather large storage company. Every single time I left and came home, it would ask if I visited it. Click no, get 38 cents. I almost felt bad after weeks of doing this, but decided to turn location off as I found it creepy.

Re: Google Surveys Sunset

#47

Post by crazygringo »

oofbey wrote: post #31
chrisfrantz wrote: post #20

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.

The two products have nothing to do with each other, Surveys is (was) for market research and it finds participants for you and it charges per response. Forms is a free general purpose tool for forms you send to contacts you have.

You appear to be confused by the similar names only.

Re: Google Surveys Sunset

#48

Post by tdeck »

londons_explore wrote: post #40

Did anyone here actually use this product? 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 sur…

I think almost nobody will miss this product but it doesn't stopp all the "lol Google turned off another thing" comments. I'm not sure I've ever seen one of these either, certainly not in the past 5 years.

Re: Google Surveys Sunset

#49

Post by esprehn »

harry8 wrote: post #36

It must be kind of depressing to be a goog c-suite exec. Even backed with that enormous market power and basically unlimited development and promotional budget no project you undertake ever works out. Why is that? Not regulation? Not being squashed by a bigger player. Why does it always seem to go wrong? I guess this is why they try to leverage that market power to rob their customers by shoving ads in front of organ…

> Even backed with that enormous market power and basically unlimited development and promotional budget no project you undertake ever works out.

I mean maybe... This product was around for 10 years. That's a pretty long time and by many measures means it was successful.

Re: Google Surveys Sunset

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Post by crazygringo »

londons_explore wrote: post #40

Did anyone here actually use this product? 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 sur…

Yes, it was actually an utterly fantastic tool for product managers. You could get hard data on consumer perceptions of pretty much anything, overnight, to put into presentations.

A lot of responses would be garbage but a couple of control questions in there would filter that out.

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