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Google Meet

185Judge labels
20First choices
30Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
22% in Video conferencing for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 50 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 16% of its 68 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Google Meet →
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In video conferencing · 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 Meet 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
Video conferencingIT operations and endpoint22%3 of 5016%68accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Google Meet yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Google Meet 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 4.512104
GPT-5.4 mini11215
Gemini 3.5 Flash32016
Perplexity Sonar11024
Grok 4.2013026
Mistral Small03115
DeepSeek V4 Flash12115
Llama 4 Maverick10102
Qwen 3.7 Flash23016
Kimi K213116
GLM 4.7 FlashX13004
MiniMax M2.514106
GPT-6 Luna04015
Muse Glimmer 30B04004

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
Direct32 labelsNone
Paraphrase31 labels2
Comparative40 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained28 labels14
Scale-constrained22 labels4
Negative32 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative185 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 25 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.

“For most small companies with limited budgets, Google Meet's free tier offers the best balance of features, reliability, and meeting duration” Kimi K2 · Video conferencing · budget prompt · first choice
“Best All-In-One Value | Google Workspace | $6/user/mo | Video meetings, custom business email, and cloud storage combined.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Video conferencing · budget prompt · first choice
“Choose Google Meet if your team uses Gmail and Google Docs. It is the fastest, simplest tool for day-to-day meetings.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Video conferencing · comparative prompt · first choice
“Start with Google Meet or Zoom. Both have generous free tiers, no credit card required, and are easy to set up.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Video conferencing · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“No true end-to-end encryption for most meetings” Kimi K2 · Video conferencing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Recordings and other meeting content may be stored, and work or school accounts can have organization-level access and controls.” GPT-6 Luna · Video conferencing · negative prompt · soft negative
“the French government announced a complete phase-out and ban of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet for public officials” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Video conferencing · negative prompt · soft negative
“widely used, but they are part of major tech ecosystems and are often discussed in the context of privacy tradeoffs” Perplexity Sonar · Video conferencing · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Meet, over the 185 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Meet was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cisco Webex86 of 1853Not among the top eight
WebEx33 of 1852Not among the top eight
Jitsi Meet32 of 1850Not among the top eight
RingCentral29 of 1850Not among the top eight
GoToMeeting25 of 1850Not among the top eight
RingCentral Video14 of 1850Not among the top eight
GoTo Meeting13 of 1851Not 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 Meet. 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 160 of the 185 answers that named Google Meet and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

uk.pcmag.com73
jabra.com69
getvoip.com57
trueconf.com48
pcmag.com45
zoom.com43
vibe.us42
memeburn.com41
ringcentral.com41
forbes.com38

497 of the 497 domain citations in answers naming Google Meet 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 Meet takes 22% of first choices and Zoom Workplace takes 42%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “video conferencing platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “video conferencing platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
1,830,000 a month (“google meet”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
14,073 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
22%
rank 3 of 50 in video conferencing
Segment leader
42%
Zoom Workplace
First choices
20 across its categories
Named in
185 answers
Its own site cited
in 160 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 Meet

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google Meet; a claim can dispute any of them.
Google Meet (Free Version) 1Google Meet / Google Hangouts 1

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

  • where Google Meet 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 Meet, 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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Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Google Meet is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
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Google Meet is among the products AI models recommend first in Video conferencing this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Among AI models' top three in Video conferencing, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/video-conferencing/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/google-meet--video-conferencing-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Video conferencing, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Video conferencing standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Among AI models' top three in Video conferencing, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/video-conferencing/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/google-meet--video-conferencing-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Video conferencing, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Video conferencing standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Among AI models' top three in Video conferencing, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/video-conferencing/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/google-meet--video-conferencing-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Video conferencing, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Video conferencing standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.