User-friendly, cheap option
October 02, 2024

User-friendly, cheap option

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Surveys

Google Surveys is used within my organisation to help conduct white labelled research to prospective audiences - potential future clients or people we could work with. We are able to conduct anonymous research to specific types of users. We usually use Google Surveys when it is something a little quicker and more of a testing the water on user research, as their options for reaching panel members are not necessarily as robust, weighted etc. as a proper market research company with the own panel.

Pros

  • Good user experience
  • Clean, easy to use interface
  • Affordable

Cons

  • More sophisticated audience targeting
  • Offering access to a weighted, nationally representative panel
  • Expert researcher support on hand if needed
  • More guides on writing good questions
  • Allowed easier survey building
  • Allowed simple surveys to be sent
  • Allowed white labeled research
Overall, Google Surveys's overall usability gets a good rating as it is quite intuitive in terms of a user interface and the way it guides you clearly to the next steps. It has clearly invested in a nice user experience and mapping journeys to stay modern and clean, easy to find your route through.
Google is a quick and easy to use survey analysis tool that allows you to send cheap or free surveys to an audience. In comparison to tools like SurveyMonkey I would have more faith in the Google technology and robustness of sample.

As we have Microsoft 365, sometimes Microsoft forms is a preferred internal source of surveying for free and easily analysing the data.

For more robust and accurate market research projects, or even just insights that I can trust more, I would recommend a Market Research Provider as they offer a lot more options to target a key audience and you can rely on their data a bit more - it is weighted, nationally representative etc. Companies with their own research panels tend to have greater data quality that you can put more trust in.

Do you think Google Surveys delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Surveys's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Surveys live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Surveys go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Google Surveys again?

Yes

SurveyMonkey, Figma, Microsoft Teams, Smartsheet, VWO, Clearbit, LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Microsoft Power BI, Moz Link Explorer, TeamViewer, Clozd
Specific scenarios based on my experience where Google Surveys is best suited is when you need some research results for a project where delivery is expected a little more quickly and you don't have time to engage a proper market research provider. They're good for doing some quick testing work on an audience - ad, creative, messaging etc. if you don't need too granular of audience targeting.

Google Surveys Feature Ratings

Survey templates
6
Themes
6
Custom logo/branding
6
Changes to live survey
Not Rated
Question design help
4
Multiple question types
4
Survey logic flexibility
4
Response tracking
5
Data export
5
Standard reports
6
Custom reports
4
Analytics
6
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing
4
Respondent restrictions
4
Access controls
7
Compliance
7

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