Ah, yeah this explanation makes total sense. /s
And another one bytes the dust. R.I.P. my friend, G-Surveys.
Cue comments about how Google always does this and can't be trusted or relied on for anything except for the direct revenue drivers: Gmail and Search. Because it's true.
At this point, I'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.
You appear to be confused by the similar names only.
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.
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?
I mean maybe... This product was around for 10 years. That's a pretty long time and by many measures means it was successful.
I've made $177 over the years. Not a fortune but it paid for a bunch of app buys and movie rentals.
I'm surprised they'd cancel this. this is one of those things Google is uniquely positioned to do.
> Another one bites the dust
> And another one gone and another one gone
> Another one bites the dust
> Hey I'm gonna get you too
> Another one bites the dust
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.
However, all 3 of those places also had internal surveys done by Google to ask questions like "Which of these brands have you seen an ad for in the past 24 hours?".
I'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.
A lot of responses would be garbage but a couple of control questions in there would filter that out.
> Google Surveys is a market research tool that allows you to easily create online surveys in order to make more informed business decisions. Users complete survey questions in order to access high quality content around the web, and publishers get paid as their users answer the surveys. Google automatically aggregates and analyzes responses, providing the data to you in a simple online interface.
What would the internet look like if Google did indeed sunset Google Search?
I think there was an alternative on HN a while back.
I truly hope google suddenly has some twisted plan to kill gmail. Though I doubt it
