Features like Google Voice Search and Image Search (Google Goggles) have been available to smartphone users for quite sometime. And today Google announced that they are bringing these features to desktop and laptop also. Google is adding speech recognition into search on desktop for Chrome users. If you’re using Chrome, you’ll start to see a little microphone in every Google search box. Simply click the microphone and speak your search. Voice Search on desktop is rolling out now on Google.com in English and will be available to most Chrome users soon.

Along with Voice Search on Desktop, Google also introduced Search by Image on desktop. Next to the microphone on images.google.com you’ll also see a little camera icon for the new Search by Image feature. If you click the camera, you can upload any picture or plug in an image URL from the web and ask Google to figure out what it is. Search by Image is rolling out now globally in 40 languages and Google is also releasing Chrome and Firefox extensions that enable you to search any image on the web by right-clicking.

Google also updated Google Instant by adding new Instant Pages feature. Google says that most people wait about five seconds for a webpage to load after clicking on a Google Instant search result. And to save those five seconds Instant Pages can get the top search result ready in the background while you’re choosing which link to click.

Google explains, “Let’s say you’re searching for information about the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. As you scan the results deciding which one to choose, Google is already prerendering the top search result for you. That way when you click, the page loads instantly.”

Google adds Instant Pages will prerender results when we’re confident you’re going to click them. The good news is that we’ve been working for years to develop our relevance technology, and we can fairly accurately predict when to prerender. To use Instant Pages, you will have to get the next beta release of Chrome, which includes prerendering.

Below we have added videos showing the above-mentioned three new Google Search features in action, check them out.