[oofbey]

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.

[crazygringo]

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.

[oofbey]

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?

[crazygringo]

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. :)

[oofbey]

Hey thanks for explaining it to me! :)

[tdeck]

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.

[sinoue]

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).

[granshaw]

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