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1 category · Named, not ranked

Google Docs

8Judge labels

0First choices

6Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Google Docs was named 3 times in Course authoring tools, where Articulate 360 led with 30%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business74 of 112

under the label threshold

Mid-market82 of 82

under the label threshold

Enterprise95 of 96

under the label threshold

In course authoring tools · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Google Docs for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Course authoring tools	Learning and development	0%	82 of 82	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by Articulate 360 at 30%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Google Docs held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Course authoring tools · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 58 → 71 of 104

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 71 → 76 of 76

Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 73 → 91 of 92

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Course authoring tools	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 71 → 82 of 82

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Google Docs across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Google Docs, Adobe Captivate, and Canva are some of the tools that users have expressed concerns about or recommended avoiding.” Llama 4 Maverick · Course authoring tools · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid Microsoft Word or Google Docs for anything larger than a few pages.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Course authoring tools · negative prompt · hard negative

“Caution is warranted for long-form creative writing because one reviewer says it is a poor fit for extended novel drafting” Perplexity Sonar · Course authoring tools · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Docs, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Docs was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Word5 of 80Not among the top eight

Adobe Captivate4 of 80Not among the top eight

Canva3 of 80Not among the top eight

Confluence3 of 80Not among the top eight

Adobe RoboHelp2 of 81Not among the top eight

Author-it2 of 81Not among the top eight

Google Slides2 of 80Not among the top eight

MadCap Flare2 of 80Not among the top eight

Microsoft PowerPoint2 of 80Not among the top eight

Notion2 of 80Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Google Docs. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 8 answers that named Google Docs and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

elearningindustry.com6

adoc-studio.app3

blog.hubspot.com3

colossyan.com3

paligo.net3

creativindie.com2

dataintelo.com2

dominknow.com2

laptopmag.com2

reddit.com2

Twenty-eight of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Google Docs came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

elearningindustry.com/the-authoring-tool-market-has-changed-how-to-choose-wisely-in-20266

elearningindustry.com/directory/software-categories/elearning-authoring-tools4

adoc-studio.app/blog/choosing-a-documentation-tool3

paligo.net/blog/how-to/hidden-costs-of-managing-technical-documentation-in-word-google-doc3

blog.hubspot.com/website/ai-writing-generator2

colossyan.com/posts/authoring-tools-examples2

creativindie.com/25-best-book-writing-apps-and-software-for-authors-write-faster-with-thes2

dataintelo.com/report/global-e-learning-content-authoring-tools-market2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

google.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Google Docs takes 0% of first choices and Articulate 360 takes 30%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “authoring tools”

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not in the top ten

Position for “elearning authoring tool”

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not in the top ten

Organic visits to its site: about 1,800,358,416 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 16,240,774 · 2,471,277 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 28,655,444
Paid Google search: 243 searches its ads show for, about 42,266 clicks and $465,944 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

5+ ads · 2 image, 2 text, 1 video · 5 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2026, as Google LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 5 in the year. 115 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 82 of 82 in course authoring tools

Segment leader

30%

Articulate 360

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 8 answers
Its own site cited: in 6 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on google.com

7,607

subdomains included

Content

1,201

counted in the table below

Documentation

137

Product · Integration

18 · 84

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Case study	707	undated
Blog	372	0	2018-12-13
Glossary or explainer	51	0	2018-12-13
Comparison	35	undated
News or press	34	undated
Template or tool	1	undated
Podcast or video	1	undated

Most recent

2018-12-13Best practices for in app rewarded video ads blog
2018-12-13How to monetize your mobile apps with ads blog
2018-12-13What is AdMob - Google AdMob glossary or explainer
2018-11-19App marketing strategies to grow and monetize your app blog
2018-11-19How much revenue can you earn from admob blog
2018-11-19How to earn money with in app advertising blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page google.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Google Docs's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Google Docs, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Google Docs by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Google Docs is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Google Docs, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.