Google background images - WTF?
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
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Apparently it's only there for the day to publicise their new background image feature. But FFS why do it in the first place?
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There's a "Change background image" link in the bottom left corner. However, that requires you to log in to iGoogle. If you don't want to create an account with Google, it looks like you'll have to live with those stupid images. Or, find a Greasemonkey script that restores the old Google look.
Daniel Grunwald wrote:
There's a "Change background image" link in the bottom left corner. However, that requires you to log in to iGoogle.
Yeah, I saw that. At the bottom of the page is "Was this page useful?" I smashed the NO button and typed in a very pointed GET THE BACKGROUND IMAGE THE F*CK OFF MY GOOGLE SEARCH PAGE!!!! Marc
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Apparently it's only there for the day to publicise their new background image feature. But FFS why do it in the first place?
"I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what you heard is not what I meant."
AlphaMatrix wrote:
Apparently it's only there for the day to publicise their new background image feature.
Well, I'll be using some other search engine in the meantime. What a way to detract people from using Google. I wonder how many people will permanently switch over, mwahahahaa!!!! Marc
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
It not just bad enough that they have added the background image, but it changes every time you open a new google session. This is definitely not one of their finest hours............ Give me back the white!
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Daniel Grunwald wrote:
There's a "Change background image" link in the bottom left corner. However, that requires you to log in to iGoogle.
Yeah, I saw that. At the bottom of the page is "Was this page useful?" I smashed the NO button and typed in a very pointed GET THE BACKGROUND IMAGE THE F*CK OFF MY GOOGLE SEARCH PAGE!!!! Marc
What happens if you type that in as a google search?
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
clickety[^] This is why I love lifehacker. They always have a solution :)
LifeHacker wrote:
If you headed to Google.com today and found the Bing-like background image enabled by default, don't freak out—it's apparently a 24-hour introduction of the feature, with backgrounds rotating on a random basis. If Google.com's a regular part of your day, and the background's distracting, do what commenter Cathoo recommends: hit the "Change Background Image" link in the lower-left, head to the "Editor's Picks" section, then scroll to the bottom to find the familiar, entirely white "theme." Or just wait until Google's background experiment reverts to its mostly-blank default.
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
Not only is it annoying, but the fade-in animation is even more distracting! :thumbsdown:
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
Hmmmm.... our corporate head office is located in Canada, so, my google.com becomes google.ca... with no background image! So... solution: use google.ca!
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
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AlphaMatrix wrote:
Apparently it's only there for the day to publicise their new background image feature.
Well, I'll be using some other search engine in the meantime. What a way to detract people from using Google. I wonder how many people will permanently switch over, mwahahahaa!!!! Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
I wonder how many people will permanently switch over
I'm considering it. Not to bing, though... That's just as bad... Maybe yahoocares search... Anything without a giant bloody #(%*&@#()*%&#()*&Uing image every time I just want to find something.
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
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All of a sudden I have background images on the google search page. I didn't turn this on. How the heck do I turn it off??? :mad: Marc
If you go to https://www.google.com/[^], yoou will not get the background image.
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Someone in Google HQ must have thought that the troublesome little upstart (Bing) might have had a good idea with the backgrounds and decided to pull it into Google as a new and very unwanted feature. It could however be like one of the Google graphics things that are there for so long then vanish, but it appears to be missing a link if that is the case.