Google background - wtf?

[Mudskipper]

Why has Google suddenly decided to invade the whole page with big bright backgrounds?

Can I turn the fecking thing off?
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[FreshAL]

Try this link instead

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all

or sign up for iGoogle

[Bendy]

[Mr.Everready]

What's wrong with it ? I use the iGoogle page, there's nothing different there.
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[Imonster]

I quite like the colourful backgrounds

That's what being halfway through an essay on Liberal Reforms will do I guess - anything to break the monotony!
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[MonkeyKnuckle]

I like the backgrounds.

You can change it in the bottom left, you can also use your own pictures. I have a picture I took of New York from the Rockefeller building as mine.
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[zaknafien]

I think google are forgetting less is more.
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[MonkeyKnuckle]

I imagine they are doing it to try to stop people using bing.com

I don't know if anyone uses Bing but they have pictures as backgrounds and stuff.
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[Raffles]

My Google background has changed 3 or 4 times so far today............what's happening?
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

[Ditto]

I just use the URL box for searching for stuff in Chrome.

Also the box on the right if Firefox. Rarely use the homepage.

But you can just set it to white or grey anyway in Editors Picks.
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[Phoenix]

[Mudskipper]

Thanks for all the fixes - I've used FreshAL's link to overwrite the favourite on this laptop for now.

Google should be a box and button with the word 'Google' above it.

Change is bad, m'kay.
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[Luke_Retrofly]

I just use the google search box at the top right of my screen, yay firefox.
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[Korn]

https://www.google.com/

No silly backgrounds, and it's SSL so nobody can see you're searching for monkey porn at work.
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[colin1]

[J0Al1]

its stopped since you started this thread.

[Mrs Kickstart]

Hi
It's a 1 day thing to demo the new feature.
They have took a lot of flack for it in the help forums.
Regards
c
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[carvell]

Indeed, they've scrapped it 14 hours into the 24 hour trial.

https://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20007366-265.html
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[Pickledswede]

Well I still have a nice 848 as my background! I will probably get bored eventually but that bike is so beautiful and on a dark background the Google logo and search box stand out really easily!

[Ditto]

I like they still have the option open. Im liking the plain clue background
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[colin1]

ah, I've now found the backgrounds, I quite them as pics for me to use as desktop images
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[Mudskipper]

[Jayy]

Google save every single search made and also use that information to target their ghey ads at you.

https://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

I use Scroogle, they delete searches within 48hrs and it strips the shite away.

[Bubbs]