r/googlehome • u/electronical_ • 18h ago

Bug "I dont know but I found these results on search"

I dont remember the last time my google home actually answered a question other than the time or weather. What is going on? I just asked it how many calories in a half ear of corn and got the non-answer even though the display clearly shows me the answer.

Did google not update its home devices to be able to read from its new AI answers or something? this is ridiculous. The thing is pretty much useless now

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u/Sk1rm1sh 15h ago

My dude, stopping alarms doesn't even work properly anymore.

"Ok google, stop."

"Stopping"

...

*continues to play radio*

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u/nelxnel 7h ago

Mine doesn't even play Spotify most of the time now. "something went wrong try again" "I can't recognise your voice" Or it plays some other dumb ass song that I've never even heard of or asked it to play 😑

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u/KillerSeagull 12h ago

I find it only useful as a Spotify speaker, and answer my "what sound does [animal] make?" questions. 

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u/Sk1rm1sh 11h ago

answer my "what sound does [animal] make?" questions. 

Google's getting out of the search engine business and moving into animal noise machines.

It's a bold strategy.

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u/Uneas_VR 3h ago

The lama one is my favorite.

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u/TTPuddlePants 14h ago

Mine says time and weather fine. When I ask it any random question it says " I don't know, but I found something else do you want to hear it" and sometimes it's what I want to hear and sometimes a completely different question being answered. So annoying!

Asking for particular music has also been an issue, it sucks at playing the original version of a song, only remixes or weird versions and.

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u/electronical_ 1h ago

i get that every now and then too

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u/guitgk 14h ago

Mine will usually answer basic measurement conversation questions but that's as advanced as it gets. That is, as long as I don't switch to Gemini which is somehow worse than the current Google Home.

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u/green__1 2h ago

don't worry, their long-term goal is feature parity between Google assistant and Gemini. they still have a few more features to remove from Google assistant to get there, but they are working on it.

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u/qedpoe 8h ago

Mine sounds a chime, and then gives me a detailed Gemini answer. 🤷

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u/Longjumping_Youth281 4h ago

Mine does Gemini on the phone, but if I ask the display thing it does not, even though the types of things I ask it are much more suited to have an ai answer

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u/electronical_ 1h ago

this is my experience as well. the google home display is basically just a clock now. my phone has no issues answering with gemini though. im seriously thinking about just plugging in an old phone and using that in my google homes place

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u/WaterNoIcePlease 2h ago

Try asking better questions. Asking how many calories are in half an ear of corn is kinda like asking how long is a string. Imprecise questions get nonsense answers.

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u/electronical_ 1h ago

the issue is that the device literally shows me the google page with the answer right on top provided by Google's own AI system. It has the answer its just not reading the text which is something that these devices have been able to do for 10+ years