Google demonstrated conversational search at Google I/O a week ago, a style of search designed to be more like natural human speech than the technically constructed search queries people often use today to retrieve information from a search engine.
It's all part of the gradual arrival of Google's vision to build Star Trek-style search, where the computer grasps what people want and answers them.
To start a "conversation," people can click on the microphone icon in the search box, then speak a question, which Google shows and then answers. Subsequent queries can be made using the "OK, Google" initiation that the company uses for making Glass receptive to voice commands.
Google tries to be clever enough to understand that "here" means "the questioner's present location" and that a pronoun could refer to the subject of a previous query.
To see the feature in action, check Google's demonstration of conversational search from Google I/O.
Google sometimes delivers the results firsthand, a major departure from search results years ago that typically were located on others' Web pages. The search engine optimization industry grew around this search-driven Web traffic, but it's not clear yet how it'll be changed as Google gives the answers itself.
The conversational search feature requires Chrome 27, which Google released Tuesday. (cnet)
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