Quitely Google has made some real history changing announcements.

This is a synopsis from John Carcutt:

http://www.meetup.com/SF-WordPress-Users/messages/boards/thread/8193897

Google has been VERY busy since Friday. Here’s a list of the announcements out of Google the past few days.

• Personal Search is now active for everyone (even if you are not signed into Google)
• Near Instant Voice Translation (all the Worlds major languages in 2010)
• Customized “Suggest” Based on Location
• Google Product Search now combined with Inventory Feeds from Local Retailers
• Google Trend Graphs appear in the Search results for Trending topics
• “Near Me Now” – Sorts results by closest location and user rating when using Mobile search
• Google Goggles – Visual Search, snap a photo of a landmark for instance and search results return with info about that landmark
• Real Time Search – Results include content from freshly published web pages, Tweets, MySpace updates and FaceBook public profiles.

And another article on the Real Time, Goggles, Voice Translation and all:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/08/new-google-features-five_n_383806.html

Google Gmail now officially available as an offline service (moved out of Gmail Labs)