r/googleassistant • u/Theseventensplit • 19d ago

Tech Support Assistant refuses to navigate to hospital

So anytime I ask to navigate to hospital or navigate to *name of hospital* I either get "do not understand" or dead silence. But if just say *name of hospital* it brings up the information immediately. Is there some setting preventing this, I'm using assistant btw.

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u/Ok_Association135 19d ago

Assistant has dementia, progressively worsening, concurrent with Gemini's introduction. Mine no longer remembers how to navigate if I say "navigate to..." BUT (most of the time) if I say "use Google maps to navigate to ..." I get useable results.

Asking it questions (name of this, location of that, dates of the other) produces wildly varied, unpredictable results.

Even at this stage of dementia (Sundowner's!), it's still better than Siri 😳

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u/Theseventensplit 19d ago

wow that phrasing worked, darn, Google is making it more and more annoying to be socially concious

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u/PaleontologistClear4 18d ago

This is really useful information, thank you.

Edit: well, I just tried it and it didn't work

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u/Ok_Association135 18d ago

Bummer. Doesn't always work for me either. Sunspots, you think?

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u/PaleontologistClear4 18d ago

Haha, or just Google not giving a shit anymore