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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh
That is part of the new launcher.
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Erm, that's where it's unclear.
I did
not get the new launcher, right, being on the 2013 Nexus 7? Yet I was able to say "OK, Google" to launch a Google search regularly, a few weeks ago or so. Not that I'm
interested in that functionality (voice recognition did not seem very reliable), but I just gave it a try, and it worked. Now it no longer works, nor does the search always work. Maybe it works if the user manually launches Google Now?
I don't use Google Now myself, so this is not really an issue for me, but it illustrates the chaos that can exist in the Android environment.
Similarly, I'd like to remove the Google search bar from the top of the home-screen, because it does not work reliably, but it apparently cannot be removed. Even if it
did work reliably, it does not support a multi-tab interface, although the first thing I always do whenever I perform a Google search, is to open a bunch of pages returned as search results in
background tabs, then examine the tabs one-by-one... This is not possible in the search-bar widget on the home-screen, so I'm forced to launch Chrome to perform a proper Google search, anyway.
