Every category where a model named Google Calendar for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Interview scheduling	Talent acquisition	0%	69 of 72	50%	8	under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 21%
Workforce scheduling	Core HR and payroll	0%	17 of 94	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated Google Calendar across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	1	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative14 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Google Calendar works for basic one-on-one scheduling, especially if your team already uses Google Workspace” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · alternative

“If you're already using Google Workspace, Google Calendar is a no-brainer for basic scheduling needs.” MiniMax M2.5 · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · alternative

“most reviewers recommend Google Calendar, Calendly, Doodle, and dedicated workforce scheduling tools” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · alternative

“Personal Scheduling: Stick to the big three: Google Calendar, Outlook, or Apple Calendar.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Google Calendar itself is not designed for self-scheduling or ATS integration. It's fully manual” Mistral Small · Interview scheduling · negative prompt · hard negative

“No self-scheduling for candidates, no ATS integration, fully manual — so it saves little time” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · soft negative

“it requires manual scheduling and does not have self-scheduling or ATS integration features” Llama 4 Maverick · Interview scheduling · negative prompt · soft negative

“Basic Scheduling Tools (Calendly, Google Calendar, YouCanBookMe) ... avoid relying on them” MiniMax M2.5 · Interview scheduling · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Calendar, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Calendar was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Calendly32 of 3319Not in the top three

YouCanBookMe16 of 332Not in the top three

GoodTime14 of 332Not in the top three

Doodle11 of 330Not in the top three

ModernLoop10 of 330Not in the top three

Koalendar9 of 332Not in the top three

Acuity Scheduling9 of 330Not in the top three

HireVue6 of 330Not in the top three

Setmore5 of 331Not in the top three

Microsoft Bookings5 of 330Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Google Calendar. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 31 of the 33 answers that named Google Calendar and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hiretruffle.com23

candidate.fyi15

lever.co15

selectsoftwarereviews.com15

youcanbook.me15

metaview.ai13

koalendar.com10

peoplemanagingpeople.com10

lunacal.ai9

cal.com7

132 of the 132 domain citations in answers naming Google Calendar came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hiretruffle.com/blog/interview-scheduling-tools23

lever.co/insights/best-interview-scheduling-software15

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/interview-scheduling-software15

metaview.ai/resources/blog/automated-interview-scheduling-tools13

youcanbook.me/blog/free-interview-schedulers13

candidate.fyi/interview-scheduling-software9

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-interview-scheduling-software9

candidate.fyi/post/interview-scheduling-tool8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Calendar

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google Calendar; a claim can dispute any of them.

Google Calendar (Appointment Slots) 1Google Calendar (with Appointment Scheduling) 1Google Calendar Appointment Schedules 1Google Calendar appointment scheduling 1

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