Google kills background images on home page

[Ohio Joe]

"Fourteen hours into a 24-hour experiment with background imagery, Google's home page is once again stark white"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20007366-265.html

One can only hope they are not stupid enough to do this again in the future.

[hlthe2b]

1. why? (I usually search from my taskbar and not from

google's home page) But, it didn't seem like a bad idea, necessarily...:shrug:

[Ohio Joe]

7. Well...

When I turned on the computer the other day, I had some picture I did not want that I could not get rid of. Then later I got a button to change it but did not have the option for all white till late last night. I found it very annoying, they should have given people the option of not having it from the start.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. I think it looks cool.

I might just turn it on.

[Brickbat]

3. Thank goodness. It looked so...1999.

[CC]

4. Mine's still there

though I did a white image with a single line on the side because I didn't like it. :shrug: Just noticed where I can turn it off now though kind of liking the all white.

[EmilyKent]

5. Thank goodness!

What an ugly experiment THAT was.

I was about to look for a new home page, when finally it reverted to the plain version.

[Cha]

6. I liked it.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. I like it, but it should be something you have to decide to turn on.

I have a pic of my doggie currently.
:-)

[Subdivisions]

9. I never saw it and I use Google constantly. n/t

[RC]

10. I like the stark white Google because I don't have to wait for a useless graphic to load.

That pissed me off also. If I want something else there, I think I can figure it out. I have a web site, I can build my own Google redirect web page.

[Ian David]

11. NoOOoo! I LIKED the background I made!

OMFG! My custom Google background came out PERFECT!
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Ian%20David/7757

[Madam Mossfern]

12. I didn't notice it was gone

I have to go back and look. I too was annoyed when it popped up and used the option to change the background to something I liked better. I usually don't dwell on stuff like this though and was just happy that someone didn't decide to redecorate my house while I was at work.

[Rage for Order]

13. Looks like they had some 'Bing' envy

:)

[madrchsod]

14. i have iGoogle with a paul frank background for my homepage

. i used to be a big fox fan but for some reason they decided to put more features than i wanted.

[canetoad]

15. Mercifully so

Their images hurt my eyes.

[pipoman]

16. I can't believe how many people here and on the cnet page give a shit...n/t

[eShirl]

17. because background images on a web page are such a new and radical concept

:sarcasm:

[pipoman]

18. I imagine those who are most shook

and hysterical about this all look like this guy (or the female equivalent)..



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[UTUSN]

19. Like the "New Coke" ?!1 Was Pat CADDELL the genius behind it?!1 n/t