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

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[-] glimse@lemmy.world 50 points 5 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.pub 14 points 5 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 <wife's first name>" -> Calls a business in a neighbouring country which happens to have the same (common) name as my wife.
  • "Call <wife's first and last name>" -> Calls my wife.
  • "Call <father's first and last name>" -> Calls another business in the same neighbouring country which name contains my father's first and last name.
  • "Call <father's first name>" -> 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...

[-] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Your Dad: Mr. Zealand. Mr. New Zealand.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

You can tell it your relationship to your contacts and then you can just say "call my wife" or "call my dad" and it'll work.

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