Dearest Google!
What were you thinking when you turned this new feature on and did not give us the ability to turn it off? Were you thinking that we all hated your clean white lines? The simple feel of your search that worked? Were you just jealous of Bing?
Please oh please oh wise folks at Google! Let me turn these stupid lily pads off! It’s cool if some people like them but many of us, I’m sure do not. Granted your playable Google Pacman experiment was cool but this full on hijack of my browser real estate just to showcase art I do not want to see is lame! I’m also sure we don’t like the option of NOT using them at all.
I kinda feel bad for all the artists who’s work is being featured this way. Instead of being celebrated by Google it’s turning into an epic FAIL!
Who’s with me on the desire for an off switch?
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Easy – bottom left, choose to change background pictures. Go to “Editors Picks” and scroll to the bottom… choose “white”. Job done!
Enjoy!!
LOL!
I didn’t click there actually. Who knew their editors liked WHITE so much.
A thousand thank you’s Mark! Hopefully my eyes will cease to bleed soon.
I have an iGoogle page with all my RSS feeds (this blog included) as my Google homepage so I never saw this “issue” until a friend told me about it.
I always link to the advanded search page and never see the graphics.
Isn’t it a tad early for that much drama? I changed it to a picture of my kids and I LOVE it.
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I haven’t seen a background image all day on the main Google page. I just went there and it was the normal white background, but there was a link in the lower left that, when I clicked on it, showed sample background images. I’m not using iGoogle, or anything special like that. I guess maybe Google disabled this.
Your poll needs a third choice, Mark: “Sometimes”
Actually I found the first image interesting and novel. Also evocative of the environment and marshes (subtle environmental commentary?).
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