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7 categories · Ranked

Google Forms

56Judge labels
4First choices
23Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
7Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
3% in Employee engagement surv for mid-market buyers
Rank 7 of 58 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In employee engagement surv · 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 Forms 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Employee engagement surveysOnboarding and employee experience3%7 of 580%8under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 37%▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
360 feedbackPerformance and talent management0%72 of 7375%8under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 34%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Candidate assessmentTalent acquisition0%42 of 11820%5under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 52%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Compliance trainingLearning and development0%63 of 920%1under 10 labels · led by Traliant at 22%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Employee wellbeing and mental healthOnboarding and employee experience0%69 of 1110%1under 10 labels · led by Wellable at 22%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Recruiting CRM and sourcingTalent acquisition0%76 of 1110%1under 10 labels · led by Gem at 15%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Whistleblowing and investigationsCore HR and payroll0%91 of 107100%1under 10 labels · led by FaceUp at 25%

Movement

Since September 2026, Google Forms held within the floor in all seven categories: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Employee engagement surv · by segment

Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 → 6 of 118
Mid-market▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 19 → 7 of 53
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 78 → 83 of 96

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Employee engagement surv0%4%▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 19 → 7 of 58
360 feedback0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 77 → 72 of 73
Candidate assessment0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 69 → 42 of 118
Compliance training0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 63 of 92, unchanged
Employee wellbeing0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 69 of 111, unchanged
Recruiting CRM0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 76 of 111, unchanged
Whistleblowing0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 91 of 107, unchanged

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 Forms across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini10001
Gemini 3.5 Flash01214
Perplexity Sonar00011
Grok 4.1 Fast10124
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00123
Kimi K201203
GLM 4.7 FlashX00213
MiniMax M2.500011
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B01001

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
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative9 labelsNone
Budget-constrained27 labels4
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative16 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“Start with Google Forms or Microsoft Forms, and move to Incogneato or SurveySparrow only if you outgrow the basics.” GPT-5.4 mini · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Google Forms (Free)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · first choice
“If your budget is as close to zero as possible, start with Google Forms” GPT-6 Luna · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · alternative
“Called “best zero-software-cost option if you can build reporting yourself”” Muse Glimmer 30B · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · alternative

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.

“Mainstream form or storage services used for intake, such as Google Forms or other non-specialized databases” Perplexity Sonar · Whistleblowing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Basic Survey & Spreadsheet Tools (Excel, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey)... generally considered "toxic"” Qwen 3.7 Flash · 360 feedback · negative prompt · hard negative
“Generic survey platforms (e.g., Google Forms, Qualaroo): Miss 360-specific features” Grok 4.1 Fast · 360 feedback · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Generic Survey Builders (e.g., Google Forms, Microsoft Forms)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 360 feedback · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Forms, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Forms was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SurveyMonkey22 of 560Not among the top eight
Workleap Officevibe16 of 564Not among the top eight
Culture Amp15 of 560Not among the top eight
Microsoft Forms13 of 560Not among the top eight
15Five Engage12 of 562Not among the top eight
Lattice12 of 560Not among the top eight
Typeform12 of 560Not among the top eight
Effy AI11 of 565Not among the top eight
FeedbackPulse11 of 565Not among the top eight
Spidergap11 of 561Not 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 Forms. 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 54 of the 56 answers that named Google Forms and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firsthr.app33
feedbackpulse.com25
peoplemanagingpeople.com20
g2.com17
workhuman.com17
betterworks.com16
learn.g2.com14
teamflect.com14
capterra.com12
engagedly.com11

179 of the 179 domain citations in answers naming Google Forms came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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 Forms takes 3% of first choices and Culture Amp takes 37%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “engagement platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “employee engagement survey platform”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
1,830,000 a month (“google forms”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
15,495 a month
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
3%
rank 7 of 58 in employee engagement surv
Segment leader
37%
Culture Amp
First choices
4 across its categories
Named in
56 answers
Its own site cited
in 54 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
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Case study707undated
Blog37202018-12-13
Glossary or explainer5102018-12-13
Comparison35undated
News or press34undated
Template or tool1undated
Podcast or video1undated
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.

Names read as Google Forms

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google Forms; a claim can dispute any of them.
Google Forms / Microsoft Forms 3Google Forms with Looker Studio 1

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The company

Google Forms is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Online forms to get insights quickly
For
Perorangan, bisnis, dan organisasi
Certifications
security, privacy, and compliance controls
Customers named
HwaComRSPCAPaack
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Google Forms's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: google.com/forms/about, google.com/intl/af/forms/about, google.com/intl/id/forms/about, google.com/intl/ms/forms/about, google.com/intl/ca/forms/about. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Google Forms 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 Forms, 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.
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