In an announcement which underscores that an incremental change is coming aboard Google Search, Internet search giant Google said at its I/O event on Wednesday that its voice search capabilities and other features of its core product will be expanded in the near future.

With Google apparently aiming at bringing about a fundamental change in the way the people carry out search on its popular search engine, Amit Singhal - the company's SVP of engineering - said at the I/O event that the planned expansion of voice search capabilities and other features in Google Search will probably result in the "end of search as we know it."

Under Google's plans to blow up Internet search, the typewritten keyword search will give way to voice-driven conversational search. With the passage of time, Google's increased anticipation of the information being sought by the web searchers will be built into the search results.

With Google VP Joanna Wright conducting a web-search demonstration using voice alone at the I/O event, it was revealed by the company that the enhanced voice capabilities and other changes to Google Search will be integrated across all platforms - desktop PCs, smartphones, and tablets - as part of an update which will be rolled out for the Google Chrome browser in the coming months.

Noting that the search engine will spring to life - and wait for the users' search query - when it receives the spoken "OK, Google" command from users, Singhal said: "It will change how you and I experience this beautiful journey that we call life."