DOWN 1 PLACE IN 2025
This powerful web search engine is often described as the only e-learning tool you’ll ever need!
Website: google.com
Rankings in the previous surveys:
| 2024: 3 | 2023: 2 | 2022: 3 | 2021: 3 | 2020: 3 | 2019: 2 | 2018: 3 | 2017: 2 | 2016: 2 |
| 2015: 3 | 2014: 5 | 2013: 4 | 2012: 4 | 2011: 15 | 2010: 11 | 2009: 8 | 2008: 6 | 2007: 3 |
Comments on Google Search in 2025
“A foundational tool for research, fact-checking, and accessing a vast range of educational resources. It is the primary gateway to knowledge.” Ramesh Kumar, Pakistan, 2025
“It offers quick access to a vast amount of information from the internet. It is a powerful tool for research and fact-checking.” Mehran Khan, Pakistan, 2025
“Google Search allows users to find information on virtually any topic within seconds. Whether it’s for academic research, personal interest, or professional needs, it provides instant access to websites, articles, news, and databases from around the world” Abiha Jawahar, Pakistan, 2025
“Google Search is my go-to tool for quickly locating accurate, up-to-date information from reliable sources on virtually any topic.” Jatendar Lai, Clinical Instructor, Pakistan. 2025
“The fundamental search engine for discovering information quickly and efficiently” Nattakam, Thailand, 2025
Previous comments on Google Search
“Every new competency, long range plan, business strategy etc will be new or different in the role and focus of aligning and strategic conversation. I use this search option as a way to have a quick understanding of the language in these conversations to assist me in providing a deeper and more tightly aligned recommendation, curation, solution to these topics for the client.” 2024
“Google is my go-to tool because of its powerful search engine and suite of services like Gmail, Drive, Docs, and Maps, which streamline communication, organization, productivity, and information retrieval.” 2024
“Google Search is great for finding info on anything. It’s perfect for quick research.” 2024
“You can get everything you need from google, whether that is to see what other companies or individuals are doing, researching best practices etc.” Izzy, L&G Specialist, Australia
“Google search provides quick and easy answers and facts to support my decisions in aligning to particular high interest topics for clients while designing a mapping of our content.” Heather Miller, Customer Service Manager, USA
“Use it all day, every day. Real time saver” Account manager, Colombia
“Still the best, although my irritation is growing about the apparently used algorithms. You can expect that with YouTube, but it should be different with Google.” Gert van Enk, Manager learning, Netherlands
“I can source multiple perspectives/models/information/papers that I can then apply my own critical thinking to and work out what I want to pay attention to. By looking for multiples I often end up creating hybrid models or an alternate perspective.” Rebecca Slingo, General Manager Learning, Australia, 2022
“I create and share documents for work and at home with family almost daily. Google suite allows collaboration that makes my life a lot easier. I also use Google search all.the.time.” Erin Clarke, Learning and Development Manager, USA, 2022
“When I need to find something even more quickly than YouTube, perhaps. Whether it’s a fast way to find the name of a book title that’s on the tip of my tongue, but for the life of me, I cannot remember the name of it, but I can remember the author’s name. Or if it’s even something like how to create a Family Feud-style interaction using PowerPoint, Google typically has a step-by-step answer for me.” Brian Washburn, CEO Endurance Learning, USA, 2022
“Yawn. But you cannot do without it, you know it.” Gerald Peterson, Germany, 2022
“Frankly, I’m not sure what I’d do without this tool, as “googling” my questions and topics that I’m interested in learning more about has been so integral and engrained in both my academic past and my professional present.” Quality Assurance and Training Administrator, USA, 2021
“I can’t remember a time I have not used this tool. Anything and everything is a click away.” JP, E-Learning Specialist, Suriname, 2021
“Can literally find anything. Filters most relevant stuff.” Stefan Drenth, Content Creator, Netherlands, 2021
“Distills and helps to connect great ideas and easy to reference” Arun Pradhan, Australia, 2021
“who can live without it?” Jan Janssen, Educational projects manager, Netherlands, 2021
“Tried others like Bing and DuckDuckGo, but Google still Works better for me.” Practical Trainer, Netherlands, 2021
“Your modern encyclopedia” Roberto Galvez, Corporate Services Director, Indonesia, 2021
“A simply incredible tool for searching for information on the internet.” C. Tollenaar, Project Design Engineer, Netherlands, 2021
“Google just makes life easy, you can find anything you want.” Lili ten Berge, Animation Editor, Netherlands, 2021
“Staying current in my profession requires constant continuing education and staying current on the latest developments. Google Search allows me to find information very quickly, apply it immediately, and share it with colleagues and students.” Karen McKinney, Architect – Instructor, USA, 2020
“I can be specific about a topic or search for an overview. Results include a variety of formats (print, audio, video). For simple questions the answer will appear in bold at the top of search results without clicking an article. I can see the full web address to discount any that are obviously not useful.” Teacher, USA, 2020
“Starting point for virtually any kind of learning. Increasingly the primary search and retrieval tool used.” Ian Gardner, Online Learning and Development Coordinator, Switzerland, 2020
“this is another service that is often overlooked by others but with is an essential part of my online learning. While I do a lot of day-to-day content aggregation, and usually search my own stuff when I need to refer back, it’s Google search that I turn to first when I’m doing deeper research. Also noteworthy here are Google’s image search and Google Scholar for academic papers (even though it really should have an ‘open content only’ button).” Stephen Downes, Canada, 2020
“I Google everything that I want to know. It is the first place where I go when I need to discovery more about something” Athais Fagundes, L&D Specialist, Brazil, 2020
“I would be lost without it for finding the things I need to check/learn at that particular moment” Business Systems Analyst, UK, 2020
“I can develop my knowledge and understanding through a search that provides me with access to a multitude of answers.” Steve Batchelder, Learning and Development Officer, UK
