Where it's most useful is when I need to know when I arrived or departed a location with some accuracy. If you arrive at, say, a shopping mall then wander around for a while, the time of arrival as determined by Timeline is not always accurate (it gets fooled by the movement around the parking lot or the mall), especially if you are bouncing between cell towers/etc. A quick look at the 'dots' and their timestamps along the road makes it very easy to determine exactly when you arrived.  

I will really miss this feature. Why did it go away? 

Also, what about albums that are NOT shared - are they guaranteed not to be hidden - that is, all unshared albums show in the 'albums' view without exception? 

Oh boy - I just tried to reproduce the problem with the exact same photos as yesterday, but cannot! Now, the downloaded photos are the edited versions, not the originals! I even edited a few more from a couple of years ago, in case that mattered, but again I got the edited version, without having to add them to an album.  

So all I can imagine is, there was a 'glitch' yesterday at the time I was downloading, that got quickly corrected. I'm quite positive that the problem occurred because I still have the 'Photos-001.zip' file from yesterday that confirms what I saw - the unedited versions. Maybe yesterday, the edits were visible to me (and thus existed on some google cloud storage location) but not yet sync'd to some other location, and the download pulled from that 'outdated' location.  I tried making some quick edits locally, and then downloading them immediately after editing, but still I got the edited versions. 

Regardless - I can't see the problem now so I'll just have to keep an eye on the situation next time I download some edited images. 

Thanks for responding. 

Here's the original page with the sidebar: 

And here's the new tab, showing the sidebar content, with 'translate' working: 

Playing around with this, and other images, I'm finding that 'sometimes' it works in the sidebar, but most often it does not.  So far, it's always worked if I open the sidebar in a new tab. 

Has no one else experienced this flakiness? 

I looked at the 'Search Region' you mentioned. it was set to 'default' ('Current Region (default)'). There are options for Czechia and US, but neither are selected.   Can you elaborate a bit about what 'search region' is relative to the adjacent setting 'search language'?  Since I'm clearly in the US now, and the phone is quite aware (time zone, etc), I can't imagine why it was still latching onto czech. 

Also - is there a simple answer to the question - what's the difference between the 'Google' app and 'Chrome'?  They both seem to offer me search capabilities. 

Also the poster above says 'open settings, go to site settings ...'. You first have to visit 'advanced', then  'privacy and security' before you can get to 'site settings'.  So the instruction should be 'open settings, open Advanced, open privacy and security, then 'site settings'.

Text sizing is a core 'accessibility' feature that all vendors should be supporting as a most basic requirement.

As a 35-year veteran of programming and IT, I'd say this is an issue with Google's 'quick' installer. Yes, it's a Microsoft error that is being thrown, not a Google error, but - that MS error is being thrown because of some method or technique used in the quick installer that is not used in the full installer. Perhaps MS changed the rules on what they allow installation programs to do. It seems futile for end-users to go down the path of trying to troubleshoot what the problem is here when no-one seems to be able to get the quick installer to work. Simply download the full installer and everything is fine. If I were google and I wanted people to use my product, I'd assign a developer to looking into why this is happening. They may work with MS along the way and jointly decide whether a change to the google installer is needed or MS needs to fix something.  But in the meantime - use the full installer.