Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.

Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    9 months ago

    Google Assistant has become so awful in the past few years.

    Ok Google, give me directions to John’s house

    “Ok, navigating you to John’s Lake House Restaurant”

    Bitch, I have a SAVED ADDRESS in Google Maps titled “John’s House.” Why would you not assume I wanted to go there instead of some restaurant 3 hours away?

    • cafeinux@infosec.pubEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      The only use I have for Google Assistant is to call people when I’m in my car, and even then it doesn’t work correctly.

      • "Call " -> Calls a business in a neighbouring country which happens to have the same (common) name as my wife.
      • "Call " -> Calls my wife.
      • "Call " -> Calls another business in the same neighbouring country which name contains my father’s first and last name.
      • "Call " -> Calls my father.

      Wtf really. Those two businesses must keep wondering who’s that number that keeps calling them at absurd times from another country and never leaves a message, because I can never remember who I must use the full name of…

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      I just asked that the other day to do what I would consider. One of the most basic tasks, add something to my shopping list. It didn’t and I got to the store and it said I had no list, so I really don’t know why I have them anymore except for speaker abilities