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by crazygringo 1374 days ago
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.

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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! :)