You gave G your soul with your Android phone contacts going into the cloud* (starting with Gingerbread), along with the (postulated) data mining built into Android. Adding search to that would just be icing on the cake.
*not necessarily (maybe) a Google cloud if carrier or user changes it, but a cloud is required for any contacts functionality - no more local storage.
Not to mention the malware/adware infested Google Play store, the reported numbers of malicious/adware Android apps (one security firm saw and flagged approx 5 million in 2016), and estimated numbers of infested devices I've seen in passing (IIRC, something like 40-60% at one time).
As much as I've always disliked Apple and their walled Garden, they have ended up with the most trustworthy, safest, and functional device ecosystem. I even vectored my cousin that way from Windows Mobile when he asked - he just wanted a mostly no-worries phone that worked, without having to have me explain registry changes and complex procedures as workarounds for issues.
In spite of that I'm stuck. Loved Win Mobile 6 - eminently user hackable, customizable, there was even a scripting interpreter (MortScript) that allowed me to tweak the phone like GreaseMonkey does FireFox, but Win Mobile was not really touch friendly, was built on top of 10 year old tech, and needed a fresh start. Microsoft screwed it all up, with Windows Phone 7, then trainwreck Win 8, and then took all their toys and went home and dropped phones and mobile devices shortly after Win 10. I was hoping it would fly, gather a community of developers that could get "rooting" to work, and I could continue to hack my own device to suit. Alas, no.
I need to find a way (like what was CyanogenMod) and a mental space (I accept this is the least of the evils and can live with the privacy invasion) to allow my next phone to be an Android phone, unless something else pops up in the next couple of years.
A phone could and should be something that just makes calls, sends texts, run apps, and browse the internet WITHOUT every movement, tap, location visited, contact entered, etc being tracked, leveraged, and monetized. There is no technical reason for it - only financial ones (don't believe the lies about it being for improving the user experience - that's an unintended side effect).
I still can't believe no-one has been able to get a non-invasive business model to fly where many would be willing to pay extra for privacy. That "many" apparently just isn't enough. And the growing "everything I do should be streamed on the internet 24/7" and "Privacy? Wuts that?" attitude doesn't help.
