http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/google-conversational-search-05-22-13-01.jpgAfter revealing it at I/O 2013 only days ago, Google’s new conversational voice search function is up and running on Chrome version 27. As we saw before, you’ll now get a spoken response on top of a web page display when using the voice search function, for starters. More interestingly, the new feature also includes semantic search, meaning you can ask follow-up questions without repeating needless info – for instance, “who’s the CEO of GE?” can now be followed up with “how old is he?” and Google will know who “he” is. We gave it a spin for ourselves and found that when it worked, it worked well, however, the system may be overwhelmed by the launch and is giving us a “no internet connection” message most of the time – not exactly what we’re looking for.
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