Google Survey's website makes no mention of them pulling the plug. Guess new users will find out the hard way. https://surveys.google.com/
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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.
Forms is just for the folks you already have signed up. Survey was more like SurveyMonkey and allowed you to reach new audiences (with a nice paid option to use Google search services).
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Not too different from using Google Forms to create a form anybody can fill out, and then buying search ads to get people to fill it out, is it now?
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#54It 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.
hehe shutting it down because it couldn't compete and it was never profitable is an interesting measure of "successful" even for these c-suite types that love re-branding abject failure as success. I guess you're right. That's what they'd have to do for their egos as they cry into their money... :S
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Not too different from using Google Forms to create a form anybody can fill out, and then buying search ads to get people to fill it out, is it now?
Actually, it's totally different. Nobody's going to click on a search ad to fill out a survey, that won't work at all for those low-cost surveys.
Google Surveys wound up being shown in order to access content -- I think it was before YouTube videos, or in order to access an article without ads/paywall on select sites. There was also a dedicated app that would pay you a small amount of money.
If you don't actually know anything about Surveys, maybe you don't need to be commenting about it. :)
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#56At 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.
Data point: I just got kicked off Google Opinion Rewards this past week, with a message that it was no longer supported for Google Workspace (née G Suite née Google Apps née Gmail For Your Domain), which I use for my personal domain. At least they cashed out my 85¢ to Paypal. They suggested I use a personal Google Account instead, but that's kind of pointless since 99% of the surveys I got were either tied to activity on Google Search or using location data collected by Google Maps.
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#57At 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.
Did you pay with a credit card? /s
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#58Can'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.
Interesting thought experiment: What would the internet look like if Google did indeed sunset Google Search?
Would a lot actually change? For people doing SEO probably yes, but as a user who switched all my browsers to default to DuckDuckGo some time ago already I think I'd barely notice it (as that switch was barely noticeable as well).
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#59i wonder when people will learn not to depend on anything these megacompanies make, ESPECIALLY google.
I truly hope google suddenly has some twisted plan to kill gmail. Though I doubt it
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not too different from using Google Forms to create a form anybody can fill out, and then buying search ads to get people to fill it out, is it now?
Actually, it's totally different. Nobody's going to click on a search ad to fill out a survey, that won't work at all for those low-cost surveys. Google Surveys wound up being shown in order to access content -- I think it was before YouTube videos, or in order to access an article without ads/paywall on select sites. There was also a dedicated app that would pay you a small amount of money. If you don't actually kno…
Hey thanks for explaining it to me! :)