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Just to clarify for those confused, this is not Google Forms. Google Surveys was apparently an entire separate product.

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Oh huh. Hadn't even heard of Google surveys then. Thanks for the clarification.

Yes. See the product page of Google Surveys:

https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/surveys/

How surveys can hel

Yep, that's the view on my MacBook Air M2

https://i.imgur.com/PLofWAT.png

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.

Hey now, let’s not chastise a major provider of 300k+/year dev jobs too much ;)

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).

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. :)

Hey thanks for explaining it to me! :)

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