Google has a thing (or two, in this instance) up its sleeve.  First, it seems to be expanding the search engine beyond basic searches, and offering something fun and interactive all the while.

Check out Google’s homepage. It’s newest Doodle logo now has an atomic particle that run away from your mouse pointer as you move it around. An amusing way to kill some time, if you don’t have anything else to do. But another update pulls up the Google homepage with a dullish, grey logo, which lights up in typical primary colors as you type in your search query. The logos are interactive, and indicative of what Google’s got in mind.

Google has been hinting about their logo in their twitter post, “Our doodle is dressing up in its brightest colors for something exciting coming very soon…” and their official statement that says, “”Boisterous doodle today. Maybe it’s excited about the week ahead…” They might announce something major about it soon. Most guesses have pointed at real-time search results, which is a concept Google’s been experimenting with on a stand-alone site.

Google is also working on “the next logical succession” in mobile technology–an Android speech translation, as demonstrated in the IFA conference this week. The demo was a live translation between English and German.  Say “hello” and you’ll get a translated version of the word, spoken from your Android phone. This will hopefully go out in the market if they deem it a success since it is still a big experiment so far.  They already have a reputation in automatic translation with their Google Translator that enables users to paste their website URL and receive a completely translated version in seconds.

Perhaps today’s conference in San Francisco will break Google’s silence and finally shed light to their whereabouts that has been perplexing the virtual world. The glints of Google’s ongoing experimentation sheds light on larger goals, which seek to keep Google ahead by solving search queries instead of directing traffic around them.  Stay tuned to SiliconANGLE for updates!