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by obituary_latte 867 days ago
Off topic (sorry), but has the quality of searches been on a steady decline over the last year or two? If I'm not just imagining things, wonder if it is because they changed the algo or if there is too much noise for the algo to work well anymore. Frustrating nonetheless...
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Yes, it's been discussed a lot in that time period how bad the decline has been.

I also use assistant a lot and it too has fallen off a cliff. Assistant in 2016 was better than it is today. Crazy.

Disregarding search results, it's been impossible for me to learn over all these years when it will actually start listening to me. Unpredictable time, can't count on the beep, can't count on the lights... it used to be instant on, and I miss that.
Google was at least super good at caching so if you knew the url you wanted a snapshot of it was almost definitely snapshotted accurately.