Comments on: Remove the Google Background Image

By: del

del — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:55:52 +0000

my google doesnt have an option saying “change background image” …im hovering over the bottom leeft corner but nothings popping up…and btw i have logged in so thats not the prob.

By: Vishu

Vishu — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:28:50 +0000

Is there anyway to get back that photo from google background?

By: LonePuma

LonePuma — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:21:15 +0000

Take it easy people, Google did a great thing! However, I myself will have to read more to get it to stay, after I sign out. I’m sure it’s only a matter of reading the rest of the instructions for whatever is desired or not.

Thanks Google!

By: furQ

furQ — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:50:13 +0000

looooouuuud noises!

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:52:03 +0000

TechCrunch took your screenshot and put it on their site unaccredited. Go figure.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/10/google-kills-its-homepage-background-image-experiment-early/

And it looks like Google realized this was a total disaster and turned off the background crap early.

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:00:28 +0000

I feel like i am caught up in the crossfire! Is this Friendly Fire? I don’t deserve this!

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:56:04 +0000

This makes me furious. When you use google.com as long as i have, you kind of take ownership of it and protect it. The hours i have spent over the years changing home pages to google.com and the hours i have spent removing all the automatic bing crap that microsoft forces on us. I expect it from MS, not google. Maybe i have gone too far, but i have uninstalled all google software from my pc’s. I am contemplating gmail suicide. How dare Microsoft force bing in IE, how dare google force backgrounds on google.com! For now i am using yahoo.com, does anybody have a better idea?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:46:41 +0000

Google and the “New Coke” or Have you not learned from marketing history’s biggest blunder?

Very simply put, You Didn’t ask “Me” (read all users) if I wanted this. You have made the mistake of thinking that everyone wants silly content on what should otherwise be a serious SEARCH engine designed for productivity. Speed and simplicity were the things that got you where you are now. Your new page is slow, distracting, childish and unproductive.

You are eroding and destroying the one thing that made you stand out from all others! Here is a quote from an article about the “New Coke”
“Sam Craig, professor of marketing and international business at the Stern School of Business at New York University, pointed to what he and other industry observers have long considered a fatal mistake on Coca-Cola’s part. “They didn’t ask the critical question of Coke users: Do you want a new Coke? By failing to ask that critical question, they had to backpedal very quickly.””

You didnt ask me if I wanted to sacrifice speed for looks. Time to backpedal, or Google will become the new “New Coke”.

I have asked my IT people to reset our search page for today or until this is fixed.
If you dont fix then you have not learned from historical blunders and we will have to find another search engine.

C. Ayala
CARMIC ENTERPRISES

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:31:51 +0000

It appears to be gone. I am no longer getting the background image when I browse to Google. Thank God. Seriously, Google, thank you for removing the background image. Please only turn it back on if there is an OBVIOUS way to disable it. Many people prefer Google *because of* it’s simple white home page.
Jeremy

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:27:51 +0000

This is just a visible tip of the iceberg. And the as$#%s want to control everything running on your computer from their servers.
They also want you to load all your data to their servers.
Big brother with cool/geeky corporate image will take care of you.

By: Philip Musgrave

Philip Musgrave — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:08:11 +0000

P.S.
I am using the Beta of SSL search now which is fine, but who knows how long till GOOG messes it up too?!!

By: Philip Musgrave

Philip Musgrave — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:06:52 +0000

I totally agree – the copycat thing with MicroSpumSoft is ridiculous. Google Plain is great in an office, the addition of the background image makes it, too, unusable. What, is Google trying to be the next Farmville?

By: fixit man

fixit man — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:05:43 +0000

What worked for me;

just use the numeric ip-address of http://www.google.com

http://72.14.213.147

http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/72.14.213.147

By: Beer Haiku

Beer Haiku — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:53:19 +0000

Serious blunder on Google’s part. The idea was dumb. The fact that they don’t have a simple “Remove Image” button is dumber. I’m going to use another search engine for a week to punish them.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:21:11 +0000

Their motto is ‘dont be evil’ not ‘dont be tacky and annoying’.

Google needs to think before they do crap like this. DO NOT WANT.