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If you've kept up with internet privacy news the last few years from things like the snowden or ashley madison scandals, how is it not your assumption that everything that is exposed to the internet is stored and indexed somewhere forever?

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There's a psychological difference between knowing it in the abstract and actually being confronted with and able to play back that history.

And least for this, there's a way to delete it.

How do we know for "sure" that it is deleted?

There are laws against retaining user-data that the user has explicitly requested to be deleted and Google spends a lot of engineering time making sure, that is really the case (which is non-trivial e.g. with failing drives that you can't access anymore. You still have to delete the data from them, meaning you must know, at every point in time, the physical drive that a users data is saved on). I think 30 days is the guarantee they make.

as per my previous examples, with the ashley maddison website users would pay to get their information "deleted" and it ended up not being deleted at all, just hidden.

Perhaps that's a fair point if you are the kind of user that keeps up with all that you've detailed. To say that users who use of Google's voice controlled features are probably aware of it is another thing entirely, and highly unlikely.

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