> The one exception is "search" queries - "how tall is Everest" and so on, but that only really works well on Google's platform because they've done all the wor

> The one exception is "search" queries - "how tall is Everest" and so on, but that only really works well on Google's platform because they've done all the work for that already. Had a small Google Assistant thingy for years, and that search stuff works great, until it doesn't, and completely misses the mark. This immediately kills trust and reduces it to a gadget that I will only use for non-critical stuff, always expecting it to break anyway.