I think because I have Google Fi, I kept getting Google Home products. We've got a couple of the little speakers, and a couple of the little Nest hubs. I bought a pair of Nest Home Max speakers when they were blowing them out, because people said they sounded good - they do!

All this is to say I'm fairly late to the voice assistant party. At some point my wife and I decided to give it a good try. Read up on best practices. Figured it'd been something that had been in market a good long time, maybe by now the kinks were worked out.

The search results were hit or miss. It was not clear where tasks were being saved to.

So for the last few years, here are the voice commands we've used:

ok google, what's the weather today

ok google, play white noise

ok google, stop

...and every now and then, we ask it to search for info on a topic and it fails comically. I'm not surprised to see a big shift here.

Oooh. On my Pixel, I do use "OK Google, Turn off the flashlight" - that IS helpful.