Google's Instant Pages helps to accelerate the search results. It predictively preloads pages before users click on result links. So after inputting the search query, the search result pages will open up faster that before.
Google Voice Search is also exactly what it sounds like – you can speak your search queries instead of typing them. This feature has been available on Android phones and now Google is bringing it to the desktop as well.
At the Inside Search event being held at San Francisco, Google has announced a new addition to its search features - Search by Image. The Search by Image feature is something like Google’s image search application for mobile devices – Google Goggles.
According to RescueTime, an analytics service, users on Google's homepage spent 26 seconds more than normal on the two days that the Les Paul doodle was present. Using that we can estimate the amount of wasted manpower because of the doodle.
Google has announced that Translate API will not be included among those being shut down. The Translate API will be available to Google as a paid API.
Starting from August 1, 2011 Google will stop supporting older versions of various browsers like the Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3 on all of it's web based products such as GMail, Google Docs and more.