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Google Gemini

Score7.5 out of 10

20 Reviews and Ratings

What is Google Gemini?

Google Gemini (formerly Bard) is an AI assistant, presented as a creative and helpful collaborator. Gemini for Workspace is available via two plans: a Gemini Enterprise add-on, and a Gemini Business add-on.

Gemini everything

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a non native English speaker, I use Gemini on a daily basis, I use it to review my communication with customers to ensure grammar and relevance, I use it to rephrase communication with customers to make sure our responses remain relevant but also don't tire our customers with the same responses over and over, I also use it to guide my communication with leadership and I even bounce the an idea on it to help me ground it, as often I think of improvements we could have on our tooling but I ask Gemini to scope it and check for availability before running it with the Eng team.

Pros

  • rephrasing comms
  • interpreting results
  • correcting SQL queries
  • coaching on ideas

Cons

  • I would like it to put together similar topics of questions I've asked so it can learn them separatedly

Return on Investment

  • It has allowed me to reduce time of response by 30%
  • It's reduced the time I take to create a correct query

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and xAI Grok

Other Software Used

ChatGPT, Google Drive, Looker

Google Gemini Personal or Professional It Gets the Job Done and well.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it for predominantly content creation, copywriting, and for general brainstorming. As a team of one, it can be hard to come up with all your own ideas - which is where Gemini comes in for me. It makes me feel slightly less lonely and helps me bounce ideas with myself.

Pros

  • Planning
  • Prompting and remembering conversations
  • Explaining itself
  • Ease of use
  • Excellent free plan

Cons

  • Image generation can be buggy
  • Video creation is locked behind logging in

Return on Investment

  • Free way to gain another team member
  • Helps me be more efficient and overcome blocks in my workflow
  • Speeds up my ability to update our website's calendar by easily double if not more
  • Allows me to dabble in areas that I have no expertise in such as coding

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Hootsuite, ChatGPT and Perplexity

Other Software Used

Canva, Notion

Redefining productivity with Google's next-level deep research capabilities

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Google Gemini for its three robust capabilities namely, Deep research, Guided Learning and 2.5 flash Chatbot for general business research.

As far as scope is concerned, I use the tool for building my first draft of a research projects through its Deep Research capabilities, use its Canvas feature to build structural research and newsletters documents, and use its guided learning feature to ask building automation framework related queries on tools like MS Power Automate or n8n etc for solving automation problem. Additionally, I use its general purpose chatbot 2.5 flash to understand industry terminologies while working on various industry research projects.

Regarding business problems, Gemini helps me speed-up my consulting reports (research work, error free pre-made reports) and dashboard building work and reduce the turnaround time to nearly half leading more time for me to work on strategic advisory to clients.

Pros

  • Deep research for getting first business research draft from Gemini, post which i use series of prompts to improve it and use my understanding to refine it further
  • Canvas to produce structured business topic research and newsletter. Direct edits to the sections and making client ready reports
  • Learning mode to get help on step by step automation of AI workflows

Cons

  • Gemini can add detailed siltation of sources for each of the information generated by its 2.6 model. This helps user to dont go for fact check gain. Its another product called NotebookLM holds this capability.
  • Sometime it hallucinates, and often produces generic output unless robust prompts are presented. Not everyone knows advance prompting. Hence this can be improved
  • Addition of MCP connecters, like its peers ChatGPT, Claude etc can help Gemini to gain users
  • Code generation capabilities can be improved as currently it is at basic levels

Return on Investment

  • It has fasten up the research projects by providing quick, easy and digestible insights on research projects, broadening my understanding of the business to cater clients better
  • Its deep research, allowed me to deliver comprehensive insights backed projects to clients quickly. With the help of Gemini deep research, my turnaround time reduced by 50% and productivity got doubled.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Perplexity and Anthropic Claude

Other Software Used

Replit, Perplexity, Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT

Gemini gives a banana to others

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Gemini became one of our primary tools for creating images and movement now that they have the Nano Banana image manipulation and video creation.

It is incredible what it can do with a simple prompt. They still have a lot to improve but the seed is there and they will only grow.

Pros

  • image editing
  • image creation
  • movement creation

Cons

  • hallucinations
  • code reviewing
  • tool integration

Return on Investment

  • No more image search
  • Front End can use to generate layouts
  • Backend used to code with ease

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and xAI Grok

Other Software Used

ChatGPT, xAI Grok, Anthropic Claude

Saves time by helping with menial tasks

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Google Gemini in a variety of ways: I use it to write copy that is optimized for SEO, I use it to assist in the creation of new email campaigns, and I use it for strategy and problem-solving as an option for having an entity to dialogue with problems.

Pros

  • SEO Copy Generation
  • Image Creation
  • Strategy and revision

Cons

  • Image creation can use a little help but is far better than anything else on the market
  • Direct linking to other Google apps
  • A way to import chats from another LLM

Return on Investment

  • Saves time by helping with menial tasks
  • Strategy and big picture opportunities
  • Directly made by Google so it will have their best practices natively

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Anthropic Claude

Other Software Used

Constant Contact Lead Gen & CRM, Anthropic Claude, Constant Contact, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Ads, Google Business Profile, Google Slides, Google Meet, Google Translate, Google Chrome, Slack, Trello