This issue of Showdown News takes a closer look at several of these changes and the implications and contradictions of the news. It still is limited to translating 5K of text. The Go Translator which also uses Systran software does not yet include the three new options, but it will translate more the 5K worth of text. It has added some features and removed others. It now links to Category Search, News Search, Photo Search, and AV Search at the top.
Relevance ranking now relies much more on link analysis with a weighting towards established sites.
The language limits, directory results, and news results are still available, but not on the initial screens. The quick results are now in the left margin as opposed to being on top. First, Google claims an amazing more than one billion record database. For the searcher, the only way to find these partially indexed records is to use search terms that are in the anchor text used on the page that links to the URLs. In other words, you won't see many of those 500 million records, so it is more accurate to view the new database as one of 560 million records.