It announced the news at Google I/O, a conference for developers held today in San Francisco.
Business Insider's Steve Kovach, who's on the scene and saw the demo live, says, "that was an incredible demo. This is the future."Any meaningful upgrade to Google search on the desktop is huge news. Google search is the desktop Internet's most perfectly profitable business.
So, what does Google Now for desktop do?
It's basically a voice-recognizing robot assistant.
For starters, you can use it to search the Web by talking to your computer.
Except you don't have to talk in the same funny way you would type out a search on Google.com.
You can speak normally and get useful responses.
For example, you can say: "How long will it take me to drive to Santa Cruz beach?," and Google will show you directions with Google Maps and tell you how long it'll take to get there.
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