This is depressing on so many levels. If Google continue down this path, we'll need a new search engine startup that does what Google did 10 years ago.
Google Adds A Background Image To Its Homepage
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Re: Google Adds A Background Image To Its Homepage
#22For anyone in the UK, going to google.com gives you 'original' google without the background. A redirect sends you back to the UK version but if you set your homepage to google.com/ncr it should stick
Re: Google Adds A Background Image To Its Homepage
#23Can I complain that I posted about this almost 2 weeks ago? http://neosmart.net/blog/2010/google-adds-support-for-custom... Even submitted it to HN, but I guess since it's TechCrunch it makes the cut :) (link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1384608 )
To be fair, the difference is that it's now displaying images by default, and this will simply have caught a lot more people's attention
Re: Google Adds A Background Image To Its Homepage
#24This is depressing on so many levels. If Google continue down this path, we'll need a new search engine startup that does what Google did 10 years ago.
Sounds like a start-up opportunity
Re: Google Adds A Background Image To Its Homepage
#25This is depressing on so many levels. If Google continue down this path, we'll need a new search engine startup that does what Google did 10 years ago.
Re: Google Adds A Background Image To Its Homepage
#26I just encountered this. It was giant pastel pigs. I said out loud, "Awe damn, there's bing in my google."
At least the bing text is designed to contrast the background image. The Google homepage looks awful, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off.
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#27I just encountered this. It was giant pastel pigs. I said out loud, "Awe damn, there's bing in my google."
At least the bing text is designed to contrast the background image. The Google homepage looks awful , and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off.
The text is grey in the white background! What the hell!
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#28Even if this 'bingoogle' thing is lasting one day only, not having the chance to turn it off is quite annoying, actually.
If you 'Change' the background image, there's one with just a white background, which effectively takes it back to what you're used to. It isn't exactly 'turning it off' per se, but it's probably what you want, regardless.
Re: Google Adds A Background Image To Its Homepage
#29This is depressing on so many levels. If Google continue down this path, we'll need a new search engine startup that does what Google did 10 years ago.
http://duckduckgo.com
For me, personally, I want a slimmed down duckduckgo. I just want results. That is all. Listed in a table.
I don't want zero click info, don't want oddly formatted extra stuff. Don't want an infinite scroll bar wizard.
Just want results. In a list. Formatted exactly the same every time.
When I do a search on duckduckgo, I get SIX results on the first page. Which isn't good use of screen real-estate (IMHO). I want to see 20 or so results.
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#30So I set Duck Duck Go as my primary search engine a long time ago but I have this bad habit of just typing "go" into my url field and Chrome autofills "google.com" for me and I hit enter. This will break me of that habit, I can just as easily type "du" and go right to http://duckduckgo.com. Thanks Google, I needed that.