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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. Thanks god. by Cornwallis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now if only they'd get rid of that awful text fading in. What's that about?

  2. iGoogle by somaTh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Honestly, I haven't seen the main Google page in a while. Had no one sent me the link, I would've missed Pac-Man day.

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    Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
  3. Re:You know something has gone seriously wrong... by welcher · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But the whole google search sidebar was ripped off from Bing and seems to be very successful. You'd be in far more trouble if you refused to consider an idea just because it came from a place you didn't like.

  4. Re:I must be the only one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google's homepage is the dial tone of the internet.