There are some interesting features that Google is trying to put online with the hope of killing off any chance of Bing becoming a competition.
A more real-time search, that will be nice but will put a lot of SEO pages at risk. I guess there is going to have to be a major rethink as to the use of landing pages in the future. I doubt anyone will be able to keep all their SEO pages up to date.
I have been campaigning for a search function which takes into account the age of the page you are looking at. I find that as a developer I due roughly 60 – 100 searches a day, half the results can be thrown out as they are over 1 year old. Maybe Google will hold its crown with these new features. In some ways I hope so. But I think what will happen in the end is that new engines will appear that will search specifically and not generically. I would love a search engine that was to do with development and only development. Why not? It could be community driven and we could keep Mr Wong at bay. If anyone has got any VC left over, Lets talk business!!!!