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Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images

Posted by timothy on from the go-beyond-your-imitations dept.

NIN1385 writes "Google has scrapped the now infamous background image option on its homepage. After 14 hours of a scheduled 24-hour experiment to see how people liked (or disliked) the new homepage layout, the company must have found out it was very disliked. I guess the fact that 'remove Google background' was the seventh most searched for phrase today might have had something to do with it."

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  1. Wait! by coaxial · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    People actually go to the Google homepage?

    But seriously, you do anything, and you're going to find people a vocal group, perhaps even a majority that hate it. But you know what? It doesn't matter. It's a trivial change. Who is going to say, "Oh, they have a background on their default page. That completely changes my search experience. Screw that. I'm switching to Ask.com ." No one, that's who. If this is what you can find to complain about, there's nothing to complain about.

    Times like this I'd find it refreshingly honest if Google's FAQ said:

    Q: How can I disable the background image?
    A: You can't. Get used to it. You can't change the Google Doodle either.