Apple's Siri may be the new media darling these days but that doesn't mean that Google's Voice Search is going to stand being ignored. Google uploaded a pair of new videos to its YouTube channel that show two Australian engineers pushing the limits of Google's Voice Search.

Noel Gordon and Alice Boxhall two engineers from Google Australia's Chrome team have taken Google's Voice Search from its safe suburban environment and tested it in some of the remote places in Earth. The two set off for the Great Barrier Reef and asked Google's Voice Search about the Great Barrier Reef. It wasn't only after the second attempt that the Voice Search, tested on the Sony Xperia, answered the query.

In another video, the two travelled to the middle of the South Australian desert to see if the Voice Search app can still work in the middle of nowhere. The two engineers set up large convex satellite-style dishes about 50 meters apart to see if the voice app works even if the user is away from the device. It worked and the two were able to learn about treating a brown snake bite and "where's the nearest toilet?" which are really important questions to ask in the middle of the desert.

Lawther said on the blog post that Google set-up the tests after it was discovered that Australia had the lowest take-up rates for Voice Search globally but has the second highest smartphone penetration in the world. Lawther also challenged users to use Google's Voice Search with "their broadest Aussie accent" which seems like a pointed comment against Apple's Siri Voice Assistant which is also capable of Australian accent support.

Watch the two videos below: