The upcoming, According to Google's Results

Today's XKCD comic explores the future by the top Google results for queries like "by the year *", "by *". According to Google's look for results, one year after the 2012 Apocalypse, "microchipping of all Americans begins". In 2014 "GNU/Linux becomes the dominant OS" and by the year 2020, HTML5 is finished and "newspapers become outdated and die out".

 

Here's the whole future timeline, which includes guess about Android, US debt, India, world population, global warming and robot policemen.

Google Highlights Recent Image Search Results

Google in progress to index images a lot faster and it now even highlights recent results by presentation a small label like "1 day ago" or "22 hours ago" below the image. You can't yet limit the results to recent images, but I'm sure that this characteristic will be available in the near future.

Here's an example of a question that returns many recent results. It's easy to see that not all the results are from news sites, so the images aren't from Google News.