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    Google background images

    What's with the google homepage?

    They've put huge background images that look awful at my resolution. Have they just got stupid executives in power now who are changing things for the sake of it?

    The fading in bar at the top was gorden brown retarded but this background malarkey....
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    Re: Google background images

    iGoogle is the future

    I haven't seen the proper google search page in months

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    Re: Google background images

    google isnt working here....

    just went down... it still there for everyone else?

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    Re: Google background images

    It's just publicity for the new background image feature, likely it will be back to normal tomorrow.

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    Re: Google background images

    It's obviously a blatant attempt to persuade you to sign up to google so you can turn the image off, in return for giving Google all of your personal information and search history directly tied to your email address and bank account.

    The end of the world is nigh...

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    Re: Google background images

    Trying to be like Bing?

    It's almost laughable how similar their interfaces are now, but Bing has been doing backgrounds since it started. (I encourage you to load up the same search in two tabs and flick between them to see just how uncanny it is)

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    Re: Google background images

    bing don't stretch theirs thou.

    Speaking of Bing, anyone tried their visual search thingie yet?
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    Re: Google background images

    I've always found bing less reliable for getting me relevant search results, although that could just be because I've trained myself to Google's search methodology: but I can put the same search into both Bing and Google and I get significantly more relevant results on the first page in google than on the first page in bing...

    As such, I've not spent much time using any features of Bing...

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    Re: Google background images

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    It's obviously a blatant attempt to persuade you to sign up to google so you can turn the image off, in return for giving Google all of your personal information and search history directly tied to your email address and bank account.

    The end of the world is nigh...
    You can set it to white from the editors picks section

    It looks horrible with all the text still being white though
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    Re: Google background images

    I don't want backgrounds Google

    I also don't want to be signed in to use a search engine just so I can disable the things.

    /rant
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    Re: Google background images

    Since I got Chrome I don't think I've fired up the google homepage, actually. I just search from the chrome address bar.

    I'm such a Google-whore

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    Re: Google background images

    I hate BING with a passion, who the hell had the bright idea of turning your address bar into a search bar, my customers have enough trouble using IE without searching the entire web when i get them to enter an ip address.


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    Re: Google background images

    its bumming my remote desktops to death

    hopefully gone soon
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    Re: Google background images

    yes nothing like no "I'm Feeling Lucky" button or autocompletetion is there
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    Re: Google background images

    It seems google is changing the picture every hour or so..........please just leave it alone

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