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Google background images - WTF?

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  • M Marc Clifton

    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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    Lost User
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    It looks like they have paid Dalek Dave to do their homepage! :laugh:

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    • M Marc Clifton

      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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      Diagon Alley
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      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.

      If you need a hammer get C and shut up. If you need a nail gun get C++ and shut up. If you don't need *those* things (and good design should tell you) then by all means get a factory, factory, factory. --code-frog Why would you need to date, when C++ is your soul mate?! --Steve Echols

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      • M Marc Clifton

        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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        Nish Nishant
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        Not only is it annoying, but the fade-in animation is even more distracting! :thumbsdown:

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        • M Marc Clifton

          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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          Tim Carmichael
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          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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            It looks like they have paid Dalek Dave to do their homepage! :laugh:

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            BonshatS
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            pompeyboy3 wrote:

            It looks like they have paid Dalek Dave to do their homepage on a Friday night!

            FTFY

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            • M Marc Clifton

              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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              Ravi Bhavnani
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              Odd, I don't see them.  Perhaps it's because I've replaced my hosts file with the one from mvps.org[^]? /ravi

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              • M Marc Clifton

                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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                Ian Shlasko
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                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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                • M Marc Clifton

                  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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                  bwestrick
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                  OMG What is happening at Google? First the fade-in thing, now this?! I hope this is just their "New Coke" phase and they will come to their senses soon.

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    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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                    Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                    If you go to https://www.google.com/[^], yoou will not get the background image.

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                    • S Stuart Jeffery

                      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.

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                      Lost User
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                      Some one from microsoft did so, to irritate google users. :laugh: Hurray, we have more bing users today not fair on google :(

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