🆚 Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word
Google Docs
Microsoft WordType
About
Google Docs is a web-based word processor and part of the 
Google Docs Editors suite that enables users to create and edit documents collaboratively in real time within a browser.
It includes a document editor with built-in styles and templates, version history with named revisions, voice typing in over 100 languages, smart compose and grammar suggestions, and offline editing with automatic synchronization.
Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft and included in the 
Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 suites for creating, editing, and formatting text documents.
It provides rich text editing with advanced formatting, templates and styles, spell check and grammar assistance, tables and graphics insertion, document layout controls, and collaboration features such as real-time co-authoring and comments.
Headquarters
workspace.google.com
microsoft.comPricing
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Online Collaboration category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Ukraine in the Online Collaboration category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Online Collaboration category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Russia in the Tools category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Ukraine in the Tools category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the HTML Editors category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,281 websites. However, data for Google Docs is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.