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1. No opinion stated

   Case Western Reserve University, University Technology ([U]Tech)

   CWRU Partners with Google to Expand Campus-Wide AI Access with Gemini EnterpriseInstitutional rollout announcement, CWRU [U]Tech News

   CWRU opened Gemini Enterprise to every student and employee through single sign-on, with training, and told staff to avoid unapproved consumer tools such as personal ChatGPT accounts.

   Published Oct 16, 2026Case Western Reserve University, Gemini Enterprise for all faculty, staff, and students

   Counts toward

   • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Gemini as the main assistant
   • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

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   Gemini Enterprise with Gemini 4 Argon, connected to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365

2. Positive

   tjrobertson-seo, Reddit poster running an agency

   We will definitely be using Gemini Agent, just not exclusivelyReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

   The agency already connects Workspace to Claude and ChatGPT and expects Gemini Agent, with shared memory and MCP connections, to be helpful alongside them, while watching who holds its data.

   Published Oct 8, 2026self-described: An agency that runs on Google Workspace with Claude and ChatGPT connected

   Counts toward

   • Overall signal
   • Workspace Integration: Positive
   • Data Handling: Discussed without concern
   • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

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3. Negative

   u/DevDadRob, Reddit poster handling the company's Workspace renewal

   Negotiating Room if I don't want Gemini?Reddit post

   Their rep wants to renew a 20-user Workspace plan at a higher price that includes Gemini they do not want, with discounts lost if they decline.

   Published Oct 8, 2026self-described: Company with 20 Google Workspace users

   Counts toward

   • Overall signal
   • Value in the Plan Price: Mixed or negative
   • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern

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   Communities & Admin Forums

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   IT & leadership

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4. Negative

   anson_antony, Reddit poster and Workspace admin

   Gemini Issue for Google workspace usersReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

   In a tenant of over 1,000 accounts, two new staff cannot hold a Gemini conversation past the first prompt, though Gemini works for them inside Docs, Sheets, and Gmail.

   Published Sep 11, 2026self-described: An organization of more than 1,000 accounts

   Counts toward

   • Overall signal
   • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern

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   Communities & Admin Forums

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   IT & leadership

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5. Negative

   AlienRedditMaster, Reddit poster and Workspace administrator

   The Perplexing State of Gemini in Google WorkspaceReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

   A paying admin objects to price rises for bundled Gemini with no opt-out, and to being stuck on Gemini 3.6 Flash while newer models reach other customers.

   Published Sep 6, 2026self-described: A paying Workspace organization with an active team

   Counts toward

   • Overall signal
   • Value in the Plan Price: Mixed or negative
   • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern
   • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern

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   IT & leadership

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6. Negative

   kotaKat, Hacker News commenter and Google Workspace administrator

   Comment on: Google Pics is generally available starting todayHacker News comment

   As a Workspace admin with Gemini off across the tenant, they were told a new AI app would be on by default. They now see upgrade ads inside Workspace that support would not remove.

   Published Sep 2, 2026self-described: A Workspace tenant with Gemini turned off

   Counts toward

   • Overall signal
   • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
   • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern

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   Communities & Admin Forums

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   IT & leadership

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7. Mixed

   Stanford University IT

   Google GeminiInstitutional service page, Stanford University IT

   Stanford approves the standalone Gemini app for data up to high-risk and PHI. It keeps Gemini off inside Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail for every account over data privacy and compliance concerns, and says Google's licensing blocks buying the paid add-on.

   Published Aug 25, 2026self-described: Stanford University, Gemini app for all faculty, staff, and students with Gemini in Workspace apps turned off

   Counts toward

   • Overall signal
   • Data Handling: Raised as a concern
   • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern
   • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

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   Gemini app with a Stanford account; Gemini in Workspace apps and Google AI Pro unavailable

8. Positive

   Texas A&M University Technology Services

   Google GeminiInstitutional service page, Texas A&M Technology Services

   Texas A&M offers Gemini to its whole campus as a more secure alternative to the consumer app, approved for FERPA data while barring sensitive personal and health records. It sells Google AI Pro to employees who want Gemini inside Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

   Published Aug 21, 2026self-described: Texas A&M University, Gemini for students, faculty, staff, and retirees with a paid Google AI Pro add-on for employees

   Counts toward

   • Overall signal
   • Data Handling: Discussed without concern
   • Pricing & Packaging: Discussed without concern
   • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

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   Gemini app with a Texas A&M account and the Google AI Pro add-on

9. Mixed

   daft_pink, Hacker News commenter

   Comment on: Big tech needs to justify AI spending as investors dump stocksHacker News comment

   Their company dropped blanket Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions; everyone keeps the cheap Workspace Gemini while power users get premium personal plans.

   Published Jul 20, 2026self-described: Company that gives every employee Gemini through Google Workspace

   Counts toward

   • Overall signal
   • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
   • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first
   • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

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   Gemini included with Google Workspace

10. Mixed

    u/SuperfluousJuggler, Reddit commenter on a Workspace for Education Plus plan

    Comment on: Gemini Pro for Education constantly switching to lower models due to "heavy load"Reddit comment

    On Education Plus they see the same Pro fallback, but usage monitoring shows none of their 600 core heavy users hit limits, so they blame Google capacity.

    Published Jul 1, 2026self-described: Education Plus plan with 600 core heavy Gemini users

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Discussed without concern
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

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    Workspace for Education Plus

11. Negative

    u/Meretrelle, Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals admin at a school (self-described)

    Gemini Pro for Education constantly switching to lower models due to "heavy load"Reddit post

    School admin reports teachers and students regularly see Gemini Pro fall back to weaker models under heavy load, with noticeably lower quality and stalled answers.

    Published Jun 28, 2026self-described: School on Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals (free edition)

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

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    Organization-wide

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    Workspace for Education Fundamentals, Gemini app Pro model

12. Positive

    UC Berkeley IT, bConnected Team, Email & Collaboration Services

    New Gemini Features: Delete History and Temporary ChatsInstitutional IT announcement, Berkeley IT News

    Berkeley IT welcomed temporary chats and chat deletion in Gemini as a step for privacy and risk reduction, and reminds the campus that conversations are still kept for 18 months by default.

    Published Jun 18, 2026self-described: UC Berkeley, Gemini app on campus Google Workspace accounts

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Data Handling: Discussed without concern

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    Gemini app temporary chats and conversation deletion

13. Mixed

    u/PablanoPato, Reddit poster managing the organization's Workspace renewal

    Google Partner pushing EOY Gemini Enterprise bundle deal. Is the math actually good or am I being played?Reddit post

    Weighs a partner offer to convert 25% of seats to Gemini Enterprise for a deeper Workspace discount, after a 20% list price rise tied to bundling Gemini into the base product.

    Published Jun 16, 2026self-described: ~2,000 Google Workspace Enterprise Standard seats across three tenants

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Mixed or negative
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

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    Organization-wide

    Evidence

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    Observed on

    Workspace Enterprise Standard, Gemini Enterprise bundle

14. Negative

    u/616c, Reddit commenter (Workspace Enterprise admin, per comment)

    Comment on: Google Partner pushing EOY Gemini Enterprise bundle deal. Is the math actually good or am I being played?Reddit comment

    Says Google now shows upsell ads for AI features in Workspace Enterprise that admins cannot turn off without disabling all AI, and doubts real demand.

    Published Jun 16, 2026self-described: Google Workspace Enterprise license

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern

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    IT & leadership

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15. Mixed

    University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology

    Google AI Pro add-on for Gemini is now availableInstitutional rollout announcement, IT@UMN

    Minnesota began selling Google AI Pro to faculty and staff at US$228 a year in response to demand. The Gemini included with Education Plus can be throttled or downgraded at peak hours and lacks Gemini inside the Workspace apps.

    Published Jun 11, 2026self-described: University of Minnesota, paid Google AI Pro add-on beside the Gemini included with Education Plus

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern

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    Organization-wide

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    Gemini with Google Workspace for Education Plus and the Google AI Pro add-on

16. Mixed

    Sea_Perception3202, Reddit poster leading a Gemini Enterprise rollout

    Need help with Gemini Enterprise multi-tenant Microsoft 365 (Entra ID)Reddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    Leading a four-month Gemini Enterprise rollout across three Microsoft 365 tenants, the author has identity federation and connectors live but struggles to connect the tenants with least-privilege access.

    Published May 12, 2026self-described: A multi-entity business with three Microsoft 365 tenants, Shopify, and a POS system

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

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    IT & leadership

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    Gemini Enterprise

17. Negative

    u/misanthrope2327, Reddit commenter (Workspace admin, per comment)

    Comment on: Do you enable Gemini Meeting notes for users by default?Reddit comment

    Turned on Gemini meeting notes for all meetings by default at the CEO's insistence, while personally switching it off every time.

    Published May 1, 2026self-described: Company whose CEO mandated Gemini meeting notes

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Meeting Notes: Mixed or negative
    • Admin Controls: Discussed without concern
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

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    IT & leadership

    Evidence

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    Observed on

    Gemini meeting notes in Google Meet

18. Mixed

    seabrookmx, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Mozilla ThunderboltHacker News comment

    Describes Gemini Enterprise apps with connectors to Sheets, databases and Jira, but their company has not yet found a compelling use case while experimenting.

    Published Apr 16, 2026self-described: Company experimenting with Gemini Enterprise

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

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    Communities & Admin Forums

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    Department

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    Gemini Enterprise

19. Mixed

    devildog12988, Reddit poster and Workspace admin

    Gemini 'take notes for me' - ability to limit?Reddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    Many users rely on Gemini meeting notes, but leadership wants to limit them to meeting hosts for sensitive meetings and the admin finds no setting to do it.

    Published Mar 31, 2026self-described: An organization where many users take meeting notes with Gemini

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Meeting Notes: Positive
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern

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    Communities & Admin Forums

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    IT & leadership

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20. Mixed

    James Reggio, CTO of Brex

    Latent Space: Brex's AI strategyPodcast episode, Latent Space

    Brex buys a few seats of several assistants and lets employees request Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude through ConductorOne in Slack.

    "What we do instead of like trying to pick a single solution is we will procure like a small number of seats, like multiple solutions, and then we’ll give employees the ability to pick whatever one they want to use."

    Published Jan 17, 2026self-described: Company procurement of chat assistants

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

    Published on

    Podcasts, Talks & Videos

    Who

    Organization-wide

    Evidence

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    Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude licences

21. Mixed

    u/bjc1960, Reddit poster setting up Gemini Enterprise for users

    Google Gemini Enterprise using M365/Azure SSOReddit post

    Setting up Microsoft 365 SSO for Gemini Enterprise required a workforce identity pool and gave users HTTP 400 errors until a reply URL differing from the documentation was set.

    Published Jan 6, 2026self-described: Organization on Microsoft 365 adopting Google Gemini Enterprise

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Feature Gaps: Discussed without concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

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    IT & leadership

    Evidence

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    Gemini Enterprise with Microsoft 365 SSO via workforce identity

22. Negative

    burnte, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?Hacker News comment

    Their company decided to leave Google Workspace, citing AI-driven price rises, weak admin tools and no granular way to opt out of Gemini.

    Published Dec 3, 2025self-described: Company leaving Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Mixed or negative
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern

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    Communities & Admin Forums

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    IT & leadership

    Evidence

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    Applies to

    Still applicable

23. Positive

    University of Oxford AI Competency Centre

    How Google Gemini Pro has supported University colleaguesInstitutional rollout report, University of Oxford AI Competency Centre

    Oxford's six-month pilot of 240 staff ended with 73% saying Gemini helped them work more effectively and 85% reporting productivity gains. Oxford then opened advance registration for Pro licences at £170 plus VAT a year, with provision expected in January 2026.

    Published Nov 26, 2025University of Oxford, six-month Gemini Pro pilot with 240 staff before department-paid licenses

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Organization-wide

    Evidence

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    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini Pro, Gemini Notebook (then NotebookLM), and Google AI Studio on the University's Google Workspace

24. Negative

    jajaja3993, Reddit poster

    Gemini in Google Workspace: Chat forgets everything, even mid-chatReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    Gemini works for the admin, but every user added later gets a Gemini that forgets the conversation mid-chat and saves nothing, despite retention settings.

    Published Nov 24, 2025self-described: A company on Business Standard

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern

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    Department

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25. Positive

    garryssaunaboy, Developer at a robotics company (self-described)

    Comment on: Gem: Modded Gemini is a great enterprise search tool/debug asst?Hacker News comment

    Built a shareable Gemini Gem with Drive files as a team debug assistant and enterprise search layer, working around a 10-file knowledge limit and missing link-following.

    Published Nov 14, 2025self-described: Not so small robotics company with docs across GitHub, Google Drive and Atlassian

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern
    • Adoption needs enablement

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    Communities & Admin Forums

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    Department

    Evidence

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    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini app Gems with Google Drive knowledge files

26. Mixed

    techpression, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025Hacker News comment

    Their company pays about 10 euros a month per user for Workspace and gets Gemini Pro with it, which they treat as a free add-on to a plan it would buy anyway.

    Published Oct 8, 2025self-described: A company paying for Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Small team

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27. Positive

    sagarm, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: OpenAI's H1 2025: US$4.3B in income, US$13.5B in lossHacker News comment

    Finds Gemini in Docs useful because it answers questions in place and draws on the company's own documents, even giving a manager an accurate project status update.

    Published Oct 4, 2025self-described: Company using Gemini in Docs

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Useful in the apps

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

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    Department

    Evidence

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    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini in Docs

28. Negative

    u/NoTimeForItAll, Reddit poster (IT, r/sysadmin)

    Gemini with personal accounts and sensitive dataReddit post

    Facing staff pushback to allow Gemini on personal Google accounts, the poster lists requirements for IT-managed settings, no training on data and deletion.

    Published Sep 29, 2025self-described: Organization whose AI policy allows only Copilot and does not use Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Data Handling: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

29. Mixed

    chatmasta, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Altoids by the FistfulHacker News comment

    Their workplace uses Gemini in Workspace; they want an admin option to share all prompts org-wide to curb colleagues sending unreviewed AI output.

    Published Sep 23, 2025self-described: Company using Gemini as part of Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Check before it goes out

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    Communities & Admin Forums

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    Department

    Evidence

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    Still applicable

30. Negative

    u/Fallingdamage, Reddit poster addressing healthcare admins

    Google Chrome * Gemini Integration: Heads up to responsible admins in healthcareReddit post

    Warns healthcare admins that the Gemini app in Chrome sends page URLs and contents to Google, a compliance risk without a Workspace BAA, and urges reviewing Chrome policies to disable features.

    Published Sep 19, 2025self-described: Healthcare organization using a browser-based EMR in Chrome

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Discussed without concern
    • Data Handling: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini app in Chrome, managed by group policy

31. Mixed

    Dangerous-Pass-8216, Reddit poster and Workspace admin

    Gemini for some, but not all users in my workspace?Reddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    The admin turned Gemini off after staff asked and usage was nil, turned it back on when the owner asked, and now cannot let individual users opt out.

    Published Sep 18, 2025self-described: A company whose owner asked for Gemini back on after staff asked for it off

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Little used
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

32. Positive

    Tyler Newman, Marketing Director at MGT Films Construction

    Saves time by helping with menial tasksTrustRadius review

    A marketing director uses Gemini, included in their Workspace subscription, for SEO copy, email campaigns, and strategy, rates it above Claude, and plans to move their work to it. Scored 9 out of 10.

    Published Sep 16, 2025self-described: MGT Films Construction, 11-50 employees; marketing copy, email campaigns, and strategy

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
    • Feature Gaps: Discussed without concern
    • Value follows Workspace
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Gemini as the main assistant

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Department

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

33. No opinion stated

    Opsin, recap of a webcast with Bill.com CIO Steve Januario

    Bill.com CIO on GenAI rollout lessonsWebcast recap, Opsin blog

    Bill.com adopted Gemini, Glean and Copilot early in phased rollouts, and the AI search tools surfaced misconfigured permissions, open Jira boards and sensitive onboarding files.

    "Januario describes how deploying AI search tools unearthed misconfigured permissions, open Jira boards, and onboarding documents containing sensitive data."

    Published Aug 28, 2025self-described: Bill.com's phased rollouts of Gemini, Glean and Copilot

    Not counted

    Opsin sells AI data-security tools for these rollouts and hosted the webcast. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

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    Observed on

    Gemini beside Glean and Copilot

34. No opinion stated

    Minghao Li and coauthors, ByteDance BandAI

    ReportBench: Evaluating Deep Research Agents via Academic Survey TasksIndependent benchmark, arXiv

    Gemini Deep Research cited 32.42 references per report against OpenAI's 9.89 but matched the gold references at 0.145 precision against 0.385, with 92.21% factual accuracy on uncited statements against 95.83%.

    Published Aug 14, 2025self-described: Benchmark of deep research reports against the references of published survey papers

    Counts toward, pending a recheck

    • Research & Notebooks: Mixed or negative

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Department

    Evidence

    Measured

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    Needs a recheck

    Observed on

    Gemini Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro in the Gemini web app, July 14 to 25, 2025

35. Positive

    CJ Loosbrock, senior director and chief technology officer, University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology

    Gemini: A powerful AI partnerInstitutional rollout announcement, University of Minnesota Brief

    With over 13,000 people on free ChatGPT accounts in March 2025, the University of Minnesota gave everyone Gemini at no added cost under its Google license. Access requires an appropriate-use attestation and review of every output.

    Published Jul 22, 2025University of Minnesota, Gemini for all faculty, staff, and students under the Google for Education agreement

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
    • Data Handling: Discussed without concern
    • Check before it goes out
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Gemini as the main assistant
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Organization-wide

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini app with a University account, Google Workspace for Education

36. Negative

    TheCee, Reddit poster

    Disable Gemini for Google MeetReddit post (r/gsuite)

    The team already uses another note taker, but turning off Gemini meeting notes means turning off Gemini and smart features entirely, and Docs fills with unwanted transcripts.

    Published Jul 9, 2025self-described: A team that uses a separate meeting note-taking tool

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Meeting Notes: Mixed or negative
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern

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    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Department

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

37. Negative

    xenator, Hacker News commenter (manages Workspace plan for a team)

    Comment on: Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?Hacker News comment

    Their globally distributed team was moved to a Gemini-included plan that regional restrictions blocked for part of the team, under 10% tried it, so they downgraded.

    Published Jun 23, 2025self-described: Globally distributed team on Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Mixed or negative
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern
    • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Little used

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Measured

    Applies to

    Still applicable

38. No opinion stated

    Mingxuan Du and coauthors, University of Science and Technology of China and Metastone Technology

    DeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research AgentsIndependent benchmark, arXiv

    Gemini-2.5-Pro Deep Research scored highest of four deep research agents on report quality (48.88 overall) and averaged 111.21 effective citations per report, with 81.44% citation accuracy against Perplexity's 90.24%.

    Published Jun 13, 2025self-described: Academic benchmark of four deep research agents on 100 PhD-level research tasks

    Counts toward, pending a recheck

    • Research & Notebooks: Positive

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Department

    Evidence

    Measured

    Applies to

    Needs a recheck

    Observed on

    Gemini-2.5-Pro Deep Research against OpenAI Deep Research, Perplexity Deep Research, and Grok Deeper Search

39. Negative

    tbochristopher, Reddit poster and Workspace admin

    FYI: Gemini is banned because we can't control our dataReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    Banned Gemini at the organization because admins could not delete retained chats, which the author sees as legal and breach risk, and says Workspace now offers no advantage over Microsoft 365.

    Published May 23, 2025self-described: An organization that banned Gemini

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Data Handling: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

40. Mixed

    Mayur Kamat, Chief Product Officer at N26

    Lenny's Podcast: Mayur Kamat of N26Podcast episode, Lenny's Podcast

    N26 has Gemini across its work, and its meeting notes work well for colleagues who miss the meeting.

    "So we have Gemini across the work. So for meeting notes and stuff, works great, especially for folks who don't make it."

    Published May 22, 2025self-described: Digital bank running Gemini across its work

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Meeting Notes: Positive
    • Summaries save time
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

    Published on

    Podcasts, Talks & Videos

    Who

    Organization-wide

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini meeting notes

41. Positive

    University of Georgia Enterprise Information Technology Services

    Google's Gemini and NotebookLM Available June 1Institutional rollout announcement, UGA EITS News

    UGA opened Gemini and NotebookLM to every student and employee inside its Google Workspace, where it says data stays out of model training. It suggests uses such as drafting onboarding FAQs and practice quiz questions.

    Published Apr 29, 2025self-described: University of Georgia, Gemini and NotebookLM for all students, faculty, and staff in the University's Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Data Handling: Discussed without concern
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Organization-wide

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini app and NotebookLM with a UGA account

42. Positive

    ipython, Investor and Google Workspace user (self-described)

    Comment on: Google's two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAIHacker News comment

    Says Gemini note taking and Meet summaries are excellent and save their teams a lot of time, NotebookLM feels almost magic, and Google's AI integrations feel most polished.

    Published Mar 26, 2025self-described: Several small paid Google Workspace domains

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Research & Notebooks: Positive
    • Meeting Notes: Positive
    • Summaries save time
    • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Useful in the apps

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Small team

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini in Meet note taking, NotebookLM

43. Negative

    exabrial, Hacker News poster (corporate Workspace org)

    Comment on: Ask HN: Google forcibly enabled Gemini in our Corp Org. How to disable?Hacker News comment

    Asks how to disable Gemini after it appeared in corporate Gmail overnight, citing a policy that corporate information cannot be sent externally and no admin console control.

    Published Jan 17, 2025self-described: Corporate Google Workspace org whose information cannot be submitted externally

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Data Handling: Raised as a concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini in Gmail

44. Mixed

    u/Wokati, Workspace admin (thread author)

    Comment on: any way to remove gemini from Workspace for all users ?Reddit comment

    Was not against Gemini and planned a gradual rollout after training users to double-check AI emails, but Google turned it on for everyone without warning.

    Published Jan 17, 2025self-described: Organization on Google Workspace Business Standard

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Check before it goes out
    • Adoption needs enablement
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Workspace Business Standard

45. Negative

    muhwalt, Workspace admin at a non-profit (self-described)

    Comment on: Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of WorkspaceHacker News comment

    Their non-profit found Gemini switched on domain-wide without warning, could not get a renewal price, and learned the admin off switches required a pricier enterprise tier.

    Published Jan 16, 2025self-described: Non-profit on Google Workspace Business Plus with a discount

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Everyone at once

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Workspace Business Plus

46. Negative

    EntireMasterpiece104, Reddit poster

    Gemini now forced on workspace users - is there any way to avoid this?Reddit post (r/gsuite)

    Furious that Google forced Gemini on the account and raised the price from £15 to £22 per user a month, the poster wants neither Gemini nor its access to company data.

    Published Jan 16, 2025self-described: A Workspace customer facing a price rise from £15 to £22 per user

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Mixed or negative
    • Data Handling: Raised as a concern
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Small team

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

47. Negative

    joveg, Reddit poster and Workspace admin

    Shutoff Gemini for workspace user.Reddit post (r/gsuite)

    During a Gemini trial one user hated it; removing the user's Gemini license still left Gemini in Gmail and Drive.

    Published Jan 16, 2025self-described: An organization testing Gemini for Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

48. Negative

    msp_ryno, Reddit poster and Workspace admin in healthcare

    I have Gemini turned off for Workspace in my Admin Settings, but it is still showing!Reddit post (r/gsuite)

    With Gemini switched off in the admin console of a healthcare tenant holding patient data, Gemini buttons still appeared in Sheets, which the admin was not willing to risk.

    Published Jan 16, 2025self-described: A healthcare organization on an Enterprise edition, with patient data in Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Data Handling: Raised as a concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

49. Mixed

    jakedata, Hacker News commenter trialing Gemini at work

    Comment on: Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of WorkspaceHacker News comment

    While trialing Gemini at work, warns that enabling the Workspace extension lets Gemini reach all Drive content a user can see, so admins should lock down permissions first.

    Published Jan 15, 2025self-described: Organization running a Gemini POC on Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Data Handling: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be turned on for everyone at once, or for selected groups first?: Selected groups first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini app with the Google Workspace extension

50. Negative

    u/Mindestiny, Reddit commenter (IT, r/sysadmin)

    Comment on: Google Workspace getting Gemini whether wanted or not. Surprise announcement today.Reddit comment

    Had just told colleagues an evaluation of Gemini for Workspace was pointless because Google would change licensing again, which the bundling announcement confirmed.

    Published Jan 15, 2025self-described: Organization evaluating Gemini access for Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    IT & leadership

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

51. No opinion stated

    baumkuchens, Reddit user

    Reddit post on Gemini app on 3.8 FlashReddit post, r/Bard

    Responses on 3.8 Flash took long to load and came back clipped, and two Gems ignored their custom instructions.

    "Error in Gemini App? Responses takes forever to load despite using 3.8 Flash and they seemed to e clipped & very brief. Gems don't work - tried to use 2 different gems and they gave me a generic response instead of the usual customized ones and again, very short & brief. 3.1 Pro doesn't even work on me, it just stuck on thinking mode & won't generate any response! Anyone experienced this? I tried searching on the internet & nothing said there's an error or some sort. I'm on the Pro subscription..."

    Published Oct 28, 2026self-described: Gemini app user with Gems

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

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    Observed on

    Gemini app on Gemini 3.8 Flash

52. No opinion stated

    aethelgard-syst, Hacker News user

    Hacker News comment on Gemini ProHacker News comment

    Gemini Pro said it had sent emails, booked appointments in Google Calendar and created tasks; none existed, and the author missed a doctor's appointment.

    "…my journey started when i got out of the hospital.. i couldn't understand the letter from the doctors so i asked gemini to help me out. so far so good. i bought gemini pro and started playing around. he told me that he wrote emails, made appointments in my google calender and created tasks for me... yeah and than my riiiingg 07:30 in the morning. my local doctor, asking me if i am not able to be there... gemini lied.. i had to discuss with him until i showed him screenshots that there are no entries in my calender.. and that's basically where my journey started."

    Published Oct 27, 2026self-described: Personal Gemini Pro subscriber

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

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    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini Pro

53. No opinion stated

    Tomi Gelo, X user

    X post on Gemini for Google Cloud billingX post

    Gemini spotted old images in Artifact Registry driving the third-largest item on a Google Cloud bill, which were safe to delete.

    "One thing Gemini is genuinely good at: reducing my Google Cloud bill. Noticed a service called Artifact Registry become the 3rd biggest item on my monthly spend. Gemini spotted it was old site images I could safely delete. A 5-minute job for a few $/month saved from now on."

    Published Oct 26, 2026self-described: Google Cloud account

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini for Google Cloud billing

54. No opinion stated

    BlockchainDan, X user

    X post on Gemini LiveX post

    Gemini Live, watching a shared screen, gave wrong help linking an AirTag to the right account.

    "Dear God @GeminiApp is terrible; even for the simplest stuff! While sharing my screen in live chat mode I needed help linking an air tag to my phone. The link tag popup was incorrectly associated it the wrong account. All I needed Gemini to do was tell me how to switch the account being linked - easy right? Even while sharing my screen, Android S25e, after 40m of incorrect Gemini guesses, references to non existent buttons, menus and settings both in native Android settings and in Google Find Hub. It legit said it's sorry it's not able to help with this CRAZY CHALLENGE. Finally I just figured out out myself the old fashion way. I let Gemini watch. After figuring it out myself and Gemini wasting almost an hour of time- It literally congratulated itself and was happy it could solve that for me. I eviscerated it, so incredibly useless. Gemini AI: - doesn't interpret visual data accurately when directly in front of it - doesn't know how to navigate or modify settings in Android mobile/Samsung variant (almost identical)- at all. - Repeatedly attempts to steer user down known failure paths IN SAME SESSION! 💀 $SALVOR I wish you were here! - has no understanding of how Google Find Hub works in a multi account scenario. Zero. - delusional and apathetic; wastes 40min filled with empty attempts to apologize for it's unending failures, which just makes it worse. I self-solve in 20m with it watching. Told it I figured it out, you've been absolutely useless. It cheerily replied that it was glad it was able to solve that issue for me... Gemini didn't even remember it did absolutely nothing other than waste 40m of my life. Gemini, Android Mobile, Find Hub are all @madebygoogle products. @GeminiApp probably thinks they're from IBM. Seriously, it's dumb. Hope it's just a bad model update and is fixed soon because... Wow. It's like AI roulette when it comes to Gemini's usefulness. That's not a good thing when the competition is smarter and more reliable in every experience. I used to really like Gemini too. My 76yr old mom would've been more helpful. I'm not upset @Google, I'm just disappointed."

    Published Oct 25, 2026self-described: Live screen-sharing help

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

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    Observed on

    Gemini Live

55. No opinion stated

    galaxyLogic, Hacker News user

    Hacker News comment on GeminiHacker News comment

    Could not get Gemini or Perplexity to turn a scanned handwritten insurance appeal into text; Microsoft Copilot did it.

    "I recently had a somewhat similar task: My 80-year old friend who is on Medicare got a $30,000 hospital bill which the insurance company declined to cover. So he wrote by hand a letter to the insurance company to request a reversal of their decision. I scanned his hand-written letter and asked AI to turn it into text (to create a professional looking letter). Could not get that to work on Gemini nor Perplexity, but it worked on Co-Pilot. It did save me a lot time to use AI, especially should next time since I now know which AI app can handle it. So, there was a bit of overhead before I found the AI-app and prompt that would do it. I have another friend who works for SAP as a project manager. She said she hates the fact that management wants them to use AI for everything, giving them a bonus if they do. But one reason I think their employer insists on that is that when you try to use it for real tasks you discover what works and what doesn't. Gradually we should be getting better at it. Currently there is still a penalty caused by 1. AI not being able to do a specific task 2. Users not knowing which AI-app can do the job and 3. How to prompt the AI to get it done. Writing the prompt is what users must do, and writing a prompt that works is a skill they must learn for every task you want AI do for you. Therefore progres is is happening but incrementally."

    Published Oct 24, 2026self-described: Helping a friend appeal a hospital bill

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

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    Observed on

    Gemini

56. No opinion stated

    ButlerianJihad, Hacker News user

    Hacker News comment on Gemini helpHacker News comment

    Gemini sometimes solved Chromebook and Pixel problems tech support could not, and at other times produced confident technical nonsense.

    "This is funny to me. For a while, I thought that Google's Gemini could give good insight and guide me better than a Tech Support representative could. It certainly seemed the right choice if I had questions about my Chromebook or Pixel Phone, or Android. So I tried it out, and it really sometimes works, and I've overcome some real obstacles that Tech Support was unable to assist me with. However, Gemini can also become "too big for its britches" and begin explaining glitches from a systems-programming perspective, as if it has deep knowledge of the Android codebase, and deep engineer's knowledge of the Pixel system hardware. And it will spit out absolute nonsense. I have retorted to it a few times, "that sounds more like Star Trek than a sound appraisal of the subsystem" and then Gemini smirks and says "You're right to call me out on that!" and blithely continues on its way. So yeah. Sometimes the LLM confabulations are deeply cloaked in highly technical jargon that could not even be questioned, unless you already know it's absolute bullshit. And then the LLM freely admits it! LLMs have no shame, that's for damn sure."

    Published Oct 24, 2026self-described: Chromebook user

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini help

57. No opinion stated

    edoceo, Hacker News user

    Hacker News comment on Gemini 3.6 Thinking in the web appHacker News comment

    Gemini 3.6 Thinking supplied a decent DHCP test script in one shot after Claude declined the task.

    "Claude wouldn't let me make a DHCP client that would make 1000s of leases. But Gemini in the WebUI with 3.6 Thinking gave me a decent python script in one shot. I didn't realize testing DHCP servers was such a sensitive security issue."

    Published Oct 22, 2026self-described: Network testing

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini 3.6 Thinking in the web app

58. No opinion stated

    special k, X user

    X post on Gemini rate limitsX post

    Gemini now handles about one medium-difficulty task before the rate limit, where months ago several a day ran for hours.

    "A few months ago I could use Gemini for workload medium-difficult complexity tasks and almost never hit rate limit. Several per day, for several hours. Lately though it seems it can handle about 1 medium-difficult task before you hit rate limit. I think google like all providers are hitting the giant wall of profitability bc they have never really had to compete in a fair market not rigged in their favor. like it's just not a good value to pay for a subscription u can use a few hours per month before it's useless."

    Published Oct 22, 2026self-described: Medium-difficulty tasks

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    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

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    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini rate limits

59. No opinion stated

    madsbergstroem, GitHub user

    GitHub issue on Gemini app custom MCP connectorGitHub issue

    The Gemini app's custom MCP connector cannot register with the LiteLLM MCP gateway because Google's redirect URL is rejected.

    Published Oct 15, 2026self-described: Connecting the Gemini app to an MCP gateway

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

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    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini app custom MCP connector

60. No opinion stated

    Relative-Paint-8183, Reddit user

    Reddit post on Gemini Argon in the Gemini appReddit post, r/Bard

    Found Gemini Argon disappointing in the Gemini app, with each request taking at least 5% of the daily limit.

    "Is Argon disappointing, not worth the long wait? Couldn't make anything good out of it, especially not on the Gemini App, seems it's extra dumbed down there, with every request eating at least 5% of daily limit. A far cry compared to claude or open ai."

    Published Oct 14, 2026self-described: Gemini app user

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini 4 Argon in the Gemini app

61. No opinion stated

    Nug__Nug, Reddit user

    Reddit post on Gemini Argon and 3.1 Pro limitsReddit post, r/Bard

    On the Pro tier, Gemini Argon uses about 10% of the five-hour quota per prompt even on simple questions.

    "Gemini Argon and 3.1 Pro BURNS through 5-hour Limit now! Pro tier subscriber here. I'm noticing that Gemini Argon is using basically 10% of my five-hour quota limit per prompt, even with simple queries like asking it a question, "When will Argon be available to pro subscribers on Antigravity?" Nothing that even involves big input context or complex issues. So it's basically going to be unusable for any actual task, and I use Gemini for legal research and drafting assistance. I've also noticed the same thing when I'm selecting 3.1 Pro in the Gemini app. I used to be able to use 3.1 Pro on extended thinking and be able to use it for back and forth chat sessions for a couple hours without exhausting my 5-hour Limit, whereas each query is burning through \~7% now. It seems that Google recently implemented a change that massively increases the utilization of the five-hour quota for both the 3.1 Pro model and the Argon tier level model, making it basically unusable for complex tasks on even the pro tier subscription. Anyone else noticing that 3.1 Pro burns through the 5-hour Limit way faster than previously? I've been using 3.8 Flash for the past couple months so maybe I haven't noticed it as soon as others have noticed it, but it's definitely way less usage on the 3.1 Pro than it used to be. Seems that Pro tier users are stuck with Flash tier models if they have any real work to do! What a shame.. Gemini used to have fantastic usage limits on the Pro models, one of the main reasons I've kept my subscription with Google.."

    Published Oct 13, 2026self-described: Google AI Pro subscriber

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini 3.1 Pro limits

62. No opinion stated

    macaronianddeeez, Reddit user

    Reddit post on Gemini 3.1 Pro Deep ResearchReddit post, r/Bard

    Deep Research on Gemini 3.1 Pro kept ignoring instructions, fabricating data and citing its own draft.

    "Deep Research keeps ignoring instructions (fabricating data, mislabeling sources, citing its own draft). What am I doing wrong? I've been using Gemini 3.1 Pro with Deep Research for a few days on a fairly structured project. It's a comparative study of mechanics, formulas, economies and monetization across about 15 idle/incremental games. The goal is reference-grade balancing tables I can actually use for design work. I've put a lot of effort into the prompt: \\\* evidence rules: tag every claim by source tier (primary / wiki / forum) and confidence (FACT / INFERENCE / ESTIMATE / NOT FOUND). \\\* A fixed per-game schema. \\\* An identity check against the store listing before researching each game. \\\* A required arithmetic check on any derived number. \\\* A hard ban on filling gaps from "domain knowledge." I've now run the same reports 3+ times, including correction passes where I attach the previous output and list the specific errors to fix. The results keep failing in the same ways: 1. \\\*\\\*Ignores the identity check.\\\*\\\* I told it to confirm each game's developer, platforms and business model from the App Store or Play Store listing first. Twice it got the same game wrong: wrong developer, wrong platforms, and "premium PC game" when it's actually free-to-play on mobile. It did this even after I flagged the exact error in the correction prompt. 2. \\\*\\\*Circular sourcing.\\\*\\\* In the correction pass, it listed my attached flawed draft as a source in its bibliography, then used it to support the "corrected" claims. 3. \\\*\\\*Fabricated tables that look complete.\\\*\\\* I asked for no blank cells, with NOT FOUND where data didn't exist. Instead it filled a whole comparison matrix (daily play minutes, time to first prestige, and so on) with numbers that have no source. The footnote just says "derived from dossier synthesis." 4. \\\*\\\*Inflated confidence labels.\\\*\\\* It tagged three anecdotal Reddit posts as FACT, community spreadsheet projections as FACT, and wiki data as primary source. 5. \\\*\\\*Untraceable citations.\\\*\\\* Claims get tagged "(2024, \\\[T2\\\] FACT)" with no citation number, so I can't tell which of 50 sources supports what. 6. \\\*\\\*Change logs that lie.\\\*\\\* The correction report's change log says sections were "re-verified" or "fully sourced" when they weren't touched, or got worse. 7. \\\*\\\*Broken math.\\\*\\\* A cost table where level 100's cumulative cost exceeded level 6000's. An effective-HP formula that adds a per-hit flat reduction to total health. A "this strategy is optimal" claim where its own numbers showed a tie. 8. \\\*\\\*Silently dropped scope.\\\*\\\* One of the core games I explicitly required was just missing from the report. No NOT FOUND, no mention. 9. \\\*\\\*Regressions.\\\*\\\* Correction passes fix some errors and introduce new ones. For example, a temporary buff became "permanent." To be fair, some things improved a lot. The research-backed theory sections got genuinely better on the second pass, with correct citations to peer-reviewed papers. So it can do it; it just doesn't do it consistently, and it gets worse the more games or sections are in scope. I am almost certain that at least some part of this is user error. \\\*\\\*My questions:\\\*\\\* \\\* Is the problem scope? Should I be running one game, or even one section, per report instead of a big multi-part prompt? \\\* Does a long, rule-heavy prompt actually hurt? Does it lose instructions past a certain length? These types of prompts work excellent for me with Opus 5.5 and Astra, but maybe I need to change approach? \\\* Does Deep Research weight the research plan it shows you before starting more than the original prompt? Should I edit that plan directly to enforce constraints? \\\* Is attaching a previous report for correction a bad idea in general? Should I start fresh every time? \\\* Has anyone gotten reliable source tagging or "NOT FOUND" behavior? Any phrasing that works? \\\* For data that lives in Google Sheets or Discord, is uploading exported files the only realistic option? I'm burning through my usage limits rerunning these, so any workflow tips are appreciated."

    Published Oct 3, 2026self-described: Structured research project

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    Gemini 3.1 Pro Deep Research

63. Mixed

    tdboorman, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Gemini 4 ArgonHacker News comment

    Gemini 3.8 seems decent, but they cannot use it at work because Google has been slow to release it to Workspace customers.

    Published Oct 1, 2026self-described: Gemini at work on Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern

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    Individual user

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64. Negative

    bobtheborg, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Gemini 4 ArgonHacker News comment

    Their paid company Workspace account is stuck on Gemini 3.6 while their free Gmail account already has newer models.

    Published Sep 30, 2026self-described: A paid company Google Workspace account

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern

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    Individual user

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    Applies to

    Current

65. Negative

    Melonai, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: AX - Google's Open Agentic OrchestratorHacker News comment

    Found Gemini in Docs and Sheets useless: it never produced a correct result and mangled a simple Markdown-to-Docs formatting conversion.

    Published Sep 20, 2026self-described: Writes work reports for a corporate Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Mixed or negative
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern
    • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Little used

    Published on

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    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini in Google Docs and Sheets

66. Negative

    heyitspapa, Reddit poster

    Gemini / Meet not taking notesReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    Automatic Gemini notes are on, but every meeting ends with an email saying there was a problem producing the notes.

    Published Sep 15, 2026self-described: Own meetings on a Workspace Standard edition

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Meeting Notes: Mixed or negative

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    Individual user

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    Current

67. Mixed

    bitexploder, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Gemini 3.7 FlashHacker News comment

    Gemini 3.1 Pro was their default for discussion outside software until Fable, and they see Gemini's fit in Workspace and Enterprise, where documents and business reasoning matter.

    Published Aug 14, 2026self-described: Gemini in a business setting with documents and images

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

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    Individual user

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68. Mixed

    ngrilly, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash CyberHacker News comment

    A self-described Gemini proponent who is annoyed that their personal Google account gets more powerful Gemini tools than their corporate Workspace account.

    Published Jul 21, 2026self-described: Corporate Google Workspace account

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

69. Positive

    skyberrys, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Ask HN: How useful is Gemini for Google Apps?Hacker News comment

    Gave the Gemini web app a text agenda and got back 11 slides with references to relevant state laws and matching graphics.

    Published Jul 15, 2026self-described: Paid lowest-tier Google Workspace account

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Research & Notebooks: Positive
    • Useful for first drafts

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini web app on a Workspace account

70. Positive

    Brilliant-Run3682, Reddit poster

    Finally can delete Gemini chatsReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    Reports that Workspace users can finally delete Gemini chats, on iOS and the web.

    Published Jul 13, 2026self-described: A Google Workspace account

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Data Handling: Discussed without concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

71. Negative

    ssl-3, Google Workspace administrator (self-described)

    Comment on: GooglebookHacker News comment

    Finds Gemini Pro on their Workspace account untruthful, limited in prompts and without memory across sessions, rating its utility as negative compared with ChatGPT.

    Published May 13, 2026self-described: Small Google Workspace account administered by the author

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini Pro in the Gemini app on a Workspace account

72. Negative

    ledoscreen, Reddit poster

    Gemini in Google Sheets (GWS) puts a heavy load on the CPUReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    Gemini in Sheets froze the browser on simple row-splitting tasks; Copilot in Excel on the web did the same task quickly with almost no errors.

    Published Apr 22, 2026self-described: Own spreadsheets on Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Little used

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

73. Positive

    neya, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to AnthropicHacker News comment

    The Gemini Pro included with their Workspace plan covers their tasks, from woodworking to complex software projects, and they rarely hit its limit.

    Published Apr 6, 2026self-described: Own Google Workspace subscription, from woodworking questions to software projects

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Gemini as the main assistant

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

74. Mixed

    Wouter Born, CFOTech investor and founder of finstory.ai

    I tested Gemini in Google Sheets and it sucksPractitioner newsletter, AI CFO Office (Substack)

    A finance newsletter author asked Gemini to update a forecast model from three store emails and their attachments, and the cross-app run failed. Formulas, enrichment, and cleanup worked and come with the plan.

    Published Mar 12, 2026self-described: AI CFO Office newsletter; a rolling-forecast test across Gmail, Drive, and Sheets

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini in Google Sheets with Gemini app access to Gmail and Drive, after the March 10, 2026 update

75. Positive

    swexbe, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: How will OpenAI compete?Hacker News comment

    Canceled their ChatGPT subscription once they saw Gemini Pro was included in their Google Workspace plan, and has not looked back.

    Published Feb 26, 2026self-described: Own Google Workspace subscription

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Gemini as the main assistant

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

76. Mixed

    Caitlin Sullivan, user-research consultant and former Head of UXR at Spotify Business

    How to do AI analysis you can actually trustNewsletter guest post, Lenny's Newsletter

    Uses Gemini and NotebookLM for fewer, better-grounded themes and video analysis, and has to prompt several times for completeness.

    "Gemini (and NotebookLM): Best for highly evidenced themes and now video analysis. Gives you fewer themes but with stronger grounding. Expect to prompt multiple times to get completeness, and to ask for longer quotes. Unique advantage: it can analyze non-verbal behaviors in video, which the others can’t (yet)."

    Published Feb 17, 2026self-described: Same analysis run over 100 times across Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Research & Notebooks: Positive
    • Check before it goes out
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini and NotebookLM for research analysis

77. Mixed

    whynotminot, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30-50% of time, pressured by KPIsHacker News comment

    Finds Gemini 3 impressive but says it invents answers when it does not know, citing a made-up API call it suggested at work.

    Published Feb 10, 2026self-described: Company pays for Gemini

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Check before it goes out

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

78. Mixed

    NeuralNomad87, Reddit poster

    Gemini for Google Workspace - No Pro licenses?Reddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    Prefers Gemini to other assistants because it is fast, but Thinking runs out on Business Starter and the next Workspace step up is Ultra at over US$100 a month.

    Published Feb 3, 2026self-described: Own Business Starter subscription

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Gemini as the main assistant

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

79. Mixed

    Anna Burgess Yang, Writer

    Why I Switched from ChatGPT to Claude and GeminiPersonal blog post, tinkeringwithideas.io

    A writer leaving ChatGPT now splits work between Claude and Gemini, using Gemini as a supplement because it comes with their Google Workspace, though they rate its writing below Claude.

    Published Jan 14, 2026self-described: Solo writer; Gemini included in their Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Value follows Workspace
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini included in Google Workspace; Gems

80. Mixed

    console5000, Reddit poster and solo freelancer

    Deleting Gemini chats as a userReddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    A solo freelancer is quite happy with Gemini but frustrated that Workspace users cannot delete individual chats, which clutters recent conversations.

    Published Jan 13, 2026self-described: Own freelance work on Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

81. Mixed

    Matt MacInnis, Chief Product Officer at Rippling

    Lenny's Podcast: Matt MacInnis on writing with AIPodcast episode, Lenny's Podcast

    Uses Gemini and ChatGPT to phrase ideas he has already written, and finds them good at wording and not at generating ideas.

    "And I do find that the ChatGPT and Gemini do a great job of helping me refine how to articulate the concepts that I want to articulate. They are not useful in coming up with the ideas themselves."

    Published Dec 28, 2025self-described: Personal writing as a product executive

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Useful for first drafts

    Published on

    Podcasts, Talks & Videos

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini and ChatGPT

82. Negative

    dmd, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: GPT-5.2Hacker News comment

    Would like to use the Gemini included with Workspace, but ChatGPT, which they pay for, is vastly better for their search-heavy queries.

    Published Dec 11, 2025self-described: Workspace account that includes Gemini

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Mixed or negative
    • Value in the Plan Price: Mixed or negative
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

83. Positive

    brightball, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3Hacker News comment

    Finds Gemini 3 very solid, if behind Grok at one-shot answers, and plans to use it more at work because its Google Workspace integrations are excellent.

    Published Nov 24, 2025self-described: Trying models for use at work

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Answer Quality: Positive

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

84. Negative

    soundsandlights, Reddit poster running a marketing consultancy

    Is Gemini integration in Google Workspace as bad as it seems?Reddit post (r/googleworkspace)

    After moving a consulting business to Workspace, the poster finds Gemini keeps no memory about clients and claims files are missing that exist, unlike ChatGPT before.

    Published Nov 14, 2025self-described: Own marketing consulting business, moved from ChatGPT to Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

85. Mixed

    u/goswh, Long-time Google Workspace administrator and solo admin (self-described)

    Feature Gap for Workspace Admins: Enable Manual (individual) Chat Deletion for GeminiReddit post

    Values that Google does not train on Workspace Gemini data. Objects that users have no way to delete individual chats and admins have no toggle to allow it.

    Published Oct 31, 2025self-described: Single-user Google Workspace account with paid AI products

    Counts toward, pending a recheck

    • Overall signal
    • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
    • Feature Gaps: Raised as a concern
    • Data Handling: Discussed without concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Needs a recheck

86. Mixed

    Mark Ekvall, author of Tested In Production

    Gemini Enterprise: Google's Bet on AI That Knows Your BusinessPractitioner newsletter, Tested In Production (Substack)

    After three weeks, the author found Gemini Enterprise's cross-app agent took 15 to 30 seconds per simple query and up to 60 for automations. It made scheduling mistakes and still beat 20 minutes of manual work on multi-system tasks.

    Published Oct 24, 2025self-described: Three weeks testing Gemini Enterprise connected to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Jira, and Salesforce

    Counts toward, pending a recheck

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Research & Notebooks: Mixed or negative
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Check before it goes out
    • Value follows Workspace

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Measured

    Applies to

    Needs a recheck

    Observed on

    Gemini Enterprise: Agentspace, NotebookLM, Deep Research, Idea Generation

87. Negative

    Hobadee, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-LiteHacker News comment

    Says the Gemini bundled with their employer's Workspace gives incorrect or overlong answers and loses side-by-side tests against free ChatGPT.

    Published Sep 25, 2025self-described: Employer on Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Mixed or negative
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

88. Mixed

    kmod, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Gemini in ChromeHacker News comment

    Their Workspace Gemini app states plainly that the organization's chats are not used to improve models, which they contrast with Google's vaguer consumer terms.

    Published Sep 19, 2025self-described: Gemini app on a Google Workspace account

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Data Handling: Discussed without concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

89. Positive

    garciasn, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Turning Claude Code into my best design partnerHacker News comment

    Uses Gemini from their company's Workspace to write detailed, explicit plans and write-ups, which they then hand to Claude Code for implementation.

    Published Aug 24, 2025self-described: Company on Google Workspace

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Useful for first drafts

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

90. Positive

    nostrademons, Hacker News commenter, self-described

    Comment on: 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on US$30B Generative AI SpendHacker News comment

    Uses Gemini notes in every meeting; finds them helpful as memory joggers even when imperfect, since attendees catch errors.

    Published Aug 21, 2025

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Meeting Notes: Positive
    • Check before it goes out
    • Summaries save time

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini meeting notes

91. Mixed

    Andrew Wilkinson, co-founder of Tiny

    Lenny's Podcast: Andrew Wilkinson's AI stackPodcast episode, Lenny's Podcast

    Uses Gemini mostly for very large inputs, with Claude for writing and ChatGPT for other work.

    "Other tools, I mean otherwise, it's the basic stack of Claude and ChatGPT and Gemini. And Gemini I use mostly for things that are really large."

    Published Jul 3, 2025self-described: Personal stack of a holding-company founder

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Research & Notebooks: Positive
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Podcasts, Talks & Videos

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Current

    Observed on

    Gemini for large inputs

92. Positive

    quintes, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?Hacker News comment

    Gemini newly included in their Workspace does not bother them, and the Gemini web app works well enough that they use it more than expected.

    Published Jun 23, 2025self-described: Google Workspace account where Gemini was recently included

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Positive
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini app included with Google Workspace

93. Mixed

    Rory Bathgate, ITPro journalist and reviewer

    Google Gemini AI for Workspace is a flawed but fast enterprise AI - here's what we found with each Google appIndependent review, ITPro

    ITPro's hands-on review found Gemini fast and easy to deploy in Workspace and useful for Gmail search and Meet summaries, but frequently inaccurate in Sheets and prone to fabricating quotes.

    Published May 26, 2025self-described: ITPro's own Workspace account, tested across Sheets, Gmail, Meet, Docs, Slides and Drive

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Meeting Notes: Positive
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Check before it goes out
    • Useful for first drafts

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini for Google Workspace across Sheets, Gmail, Meet, Docs, Slides, Drive

94. Positive

    saidinesh5, Hacker News commenter, self-described

    Comment on: Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?Hacker News comment

    Gemini summaries of meetings they could not attend save them hours of watching recordings, with notes they rate as good as a human's.

    Published Apr 29, 2025

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Meeting Notes: Positive
    • Summaries save time

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini meeting summaries

95. Mixed

    whs, Hacker News commenter, self-described

    Comment on: Privacy folks - what's your take on using LLMs at work?Hacker News comment

    Uses public chatbots only for public information, but treats Gemini in Google Workspace as acceptable for proprietary data when it suits the task.

    Published Apr 25, 2025

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Data Handling: Discussed without concern

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

96. Mixed

    Simon Willison, co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette

    AI assisted search-based research actually works nowPersonal blog post, simonwillison.net

    Willison had outstanding results from Gemini Deep Research after its switch to Gemini 2.5 Pro, but takes everyday search questions to ChatGPT's o3 because the Gemini app hides what it searched for.

    Published Apr 21, 2025self-described: Independent developer comparing Gemini, OpenAI, and Perplexity search and Deep Research for his own research

    Counts toward, pending a recheck

    • Overall signal
    • Research & Notebooks: Positive
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Another assistant first

    Published on

    Reviews

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Needs a recheck

    Observed on

    Gemini Deep Research on Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini app search

97. Positive

    scojjac, Hacker News commenter

    Comment on: Google's two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAIHacker News comment

    Refused the roughly US$20 Gemini add-on on Business Starter. Now on a US$14 a month plan with Gemini included, they use it most, for PDFs and images, Deep Research, and Help Me Write.

    Published Mar 26, 2025self-described: Pays for Google Workspace Business Starter

    Counts toward, pending a recheck

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Research & Notebooks: Positive
    • Value in the Plan Price: Positive
    • Pricing & Packaging: Discussed without concern
    • Useful for first drafts
    • Should Gemini be the organization's main AI assistant?: Gemini as the main assistant

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Needs a recheck

    Observed on

    Workspace Business Starter, Deep Research, Help Me Write

98. Positive

    u/amarareps, Reddit commenter (uses Gemini for project management), self-described

    Comment on: Gemini for gmail sucksReddit comment

    Uses Gemini across Workspace apps for project requirements, social posts from briefs and Meet action items, saying it usually halves their time.

    Published Feb 3, 2025

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Workspace Integration: Positive
    • Meeting Notes: Positive
    • Useful for first drafts
    • Summaries save time
    • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Useful in the apps

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini side panel in Workspace apps, Meet transcripts

99. Negative

    u/Classic-Dependent517, Reddit poster, self-described

    Gemini for gmail sucksReddit post

    Finds Gemini's Gmail replies misread the original email, distort intent and insert stray Markdown. Blames the Gmail integration for this and does not fault the underlying model.

    Published Feb 2, 2025

    Counts toward

    • Overall signal
    • Answer Quality: Mixed or negative
    • Inconsistent Quality: Raised as a concern
    • Useful for first drafts

    Published on

    Communities & Admin Forums

    Who

    Individual user

    Evidence

    Reported

    Applies to

    Still applicable

    Observed on

    Gemini in Gmail

100. Negative

     JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B, Hacker News commenter

     Comment on: Apple iPhone sales dip despite AI rolloutHacker News comment

     Google enabled Gemini in Gmail at their workplace; they find it annoying and useless, hid the icon with a browser extension, and still get it pushed at them.

     Published Jan 31, 2025self-described: Gmail at work, after Google turned Gemini on

     Counts toward

     • Overall signal
     • Admin Controls: Raised as a concern
     • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Little used

     Published on

     Communities & Admin Forums

     Who

     Individual user

     Evidence

     Reported

     Applies to

     Still applicable

101. Mixed

     ritzaco, Hacker News commenter

     Comment on: Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of WorkspaceHacker News comment

     Dislikes paying for AI features they do not need. Still sees Workspace as such good value that they will keep paying more.

     Published Jan 16, 2025self-described: Paying Google Workspace customer

     Counts toward

     • Overall signal
     • Value in the Plan Price: Mixed or negative
     • Pricing & Packaging: Raised as a concern
     • Are Gemini's features inside Gmail, Docs, and Sheets worth using day to day?: Little used

     Published on

     Communities & Admin Forums

     Who

     Individual user

     Evidence

     Reported

     Applies to

     Still applicable