Why even bother having it at all anymore. Can’t use it through Bluetooth, it’s slow, can’t hardly handle any tasks…
Google has completely lost the plot with their services.
Imagine still using google services in 2024
“Oh shit we should probably charge a subscription for some of these features. Quick remove em so they don’t notice”
Oh don’t worry, I’m sure it’ll be back behind a paywall soon enough.
They want out and haven’t found a way to make money off of voice assistant. They’re just slowly killing it.
It’s part of why I’m pushing hard on my HA and hoping their voice efforts at least give me a solid voice experience at home.
HA = Home Assistant
Edit to say: I get that people are frustrated that previously good (mostly) free solutions are going away. I’m not defending tech, but I do see their business need here. Google has long lost my trust anyhow.
I’m not upset by the down votes, but 8 do wonder what they mean.
To me the only safe thing to do is pull back and build my own. Raspberry Pis aren’t expensive.
I don’t understand why google is still worth so much money, they are a trash company that really isn’t trying to improve any of its products. It just periodically threatens its workers with job cuts and continues to serve up crap to its customers.
That’s because you don’t understand what business Google is actually in. They’re an ad company. They sell and serve ads. Everything else is just ways to better target and serve ads. All those “products”? Those aren’t revenue streams to them, they’re incidental costs of the ads that are their actual product.
I understand that, but they aren’t even that functional at doing that. They have ruined their products so much that it is threatening the ad value of the ads they sell I imagine. Google search is awful now and there is a very real chance people will stop using it for the first time in like a decade.
Those “ruined” products handily control huge chunks of the market. So from that perspective, they’re not “ruined” at all. They’re perfect.
Google search is awful now and there is a very real chance people will stop using it for the first time in like a decade.
Sure, but the one time someone brought actual empirical data into this discussion, it showed that while Google results did get worse, they got less worse than the ones of competing products like DDG (or Bing, which interestingly didn’t share results with DDG, indicating that those must have expanded how much they use their own index).
Does that mean Google is better? No, they’re still worse off. But if anything they made gains comparatively speaking, and what actually happened is that all search engines got worse because search-engine-spam-avoidance got defeated in huge parts.
