Comment by londons_explore
17 hours ago
I bet that bottom mic is a different team...
Also the homepage search widget, the app drawer search, and chrome address bar search are three near identical experiences, yet with enough differences to be painful. Either unify them, or make them distinct!
It acts like it is now but it used to act like it was one team and was an alternative assistant trigger, or you could even type to the assistant if you couldn't/didn't want to speak. Now that's basically only available via the "Hey/Ok Google" wake words and at best the bottom search bar uses the Google home page AI.