Google Surveys Sunset

&gt; &quot;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 &amp; insights of our research network to customers via Google Ads products for advertiser, customer, and market research.&quot;<p>Ah, yeah this explanation makes total sense. &#x2F;s<p>And another one bytes the dust. R.I.P. my friend, G-Surveys.<p>Cue comments about how Google always does this and can&#x27;t be trusted or relied on for anything except for the direct revenue drivers: Gmail and Search. Because it&#x27;s true.<p>At this point, I&#x27;m just speechless. Everything worth saying on the matter, and even a lot of things not worthy of a thot, have already been said a thousand times prior.

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

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?<p>I guess this is why they try to leverage that market power to rob their customers by shoving ads in front of organic search results to try and make you pay to get the first hit on a google search of your own unique brand name. Ramping up ads on youtube while screwing the creators and so on. Revenue growth by customer abuse works. At least for a while.<p>Any business probably has to look at doing a proper risk assessment of having google as a supplier. Their search market dominance means they can, and no doubt do, laugh at those concerns while thumbing their nose at their customers. What else are customers going to do? Then buying ever more washington influence. Is that kind of arrogance the appearance of IBM style cracks in the behmoth? Or not yet? Is it inevitable given failure after failure after failure?

In this thread: people getting mad about Google dropping a product they&#x27;ve never heard of, let alone used.

At least the Opinion Rewards app isn&#x27;t going away.<p>I&#x27;ve made $177 over the years. Not a fortune but it paid for a bunch of app buys and movie rentals.

pathetic, lol. that being said, it&#x27;s important to note that this is not the same thing as Google Forms.<p>I&#x27;m surprised they&#x27;d cancel this. this is one of those things Google is uniquely positioned to do.

&gt; Another one bites the dust<p>&gt; Another one bites the dust<p>&gt; And another one gone and another one gone<p>&gt; Another one bites the dust<p>&gt; Hey I&#x27;m gonna get you too<p>&gt; Another one bites the dust<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEEd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEEd</a>

Bookers should open bets on what service google is going to discontinue next

Did anyone here actually use this product?<p>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.<p>However, all 3 of those places <i>also</i> had internal surveys done by Google to ask questions like &quot;Which of these brands have you seen an ad for in the past 24 hours?&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not sure if I saw a single survey through Google Surveys in my 10 years on the internet... So it must have been a really niche product.

Is this the same thing as google forms surveys, or something else?

Can&#x27;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.

This product seemed like it had a great deal of promise after they nailed the results of the 2012 U.S. election, in which numerous national polls said Romney would prevail. But they totally whiffed it in 2016, so it might have just been dumb luck.

Google Survey&#x27;s website makes no mention of them pulling the plug. Guess new users will find out the hard way. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;surveys.google.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;surveys.google.com&#x2F;</a>

C&#x27;mon! With Google, every product is in danger of being deprecated. I was always giving them the benefit of the doubt but not anymore.<p>I think there was an alternative on HN a while back.

Nothing spells &#x27;Care for customers&#x27; like pulling the plug and allowing 2 whole months to get their data out.

My first reaction to the following combinations of words “Google announces” and “Google deprecates” is “whatever”.

The answer to the question: What if 20th Century Fox made software?

i wonder when people will learn not to depend on anything these megacompanies make, ESPECIALLY google.<p>I truly hope google suddenly has some twisted plan to kill gmail. Though I doubt it

Lmao we use these all the time at my employer.

Someday, we&#x27;ll read, &quot;Google is deprecating Google.&quot;