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Used Google today?

I wrote an article yesterday about the new Google backgrounds feature, but at that time it wasn't compulsory.

Now it seems you get pictures unless you sign in and switch them off.

I liked simple. I liked quick. I liked all that white space. Just because you can have a huge flashy coloured background picture doesn't mean you have to have it. Especially if it adds to web congestion, slows down Google's servers and makes it hard to read the text on the screen.

Anyway, rant over.
Roy

I'm with you Roy. It's annoying. I liked simple.

I think they heard you, Roy. This morning it was back to normal.

Guess it was an experiment and no one liked it.

Yeah - they backed down - Spoof Power!

Actually, I think they wanted to put up their World Cup series of Doodles - maybe the murals will be back in a couple of weeks.

Mine still works.

Of course, as soon as I read the post at the top of this thread, I immediately checked it out and selected a background image to coordinate with the theme I use on iGoogle.

Because I'm like that.

Maybe the backgrounds only disappeared for those who did not select a background, and are still available via a link for those who want to indulge their inner child.

(Moot point for me, because my iGoogle page is my home page, and whenever I call up Google that's what I get. I usually just use the little Google gizmo in the upper right corner of my browser. But I still picked a background, because you just never know.)

Ah yes - I was talking about the default images that Google put up for a couple of days - I guess if you selected your own then you wouldn't get the default ones. If they don't come back after the World Cup I think it was to publicise the image facility.