Yet another nice feature that no longer works:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-12-14.html#n70

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22It+was+a+big+turning+point
vs
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22It+was+a+big+turning+point%22

That's a pain. I used to use that a lot. Even though it was one character it felt like it was saving me a lot of time (I guess because it was two key presses)

The Google Translate shortcut in SERPs ([en:fr love]) doesn't seem to work anymore too.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/04/shortcuts-for-google-translate-and.html