What have google done?
 

I was happpy with the white screen... I don't need to see trees or wooden structures when searching



oopps title should say what have google done.

Re: What have google done??
 

I doubt that it is permanent.

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Actually upon investigation it turns out you can change the background picture and supply one of your own choosing..;)

Re: What have google done??
 

So you can. It needs a google account of course. I've changed mine to white, but the links look horrible now if you ask me.

Re: What have google done??
 

Actually that looks very stylish,very minimalist. Nice.

Re: What have google done??
 

It's only temporary to show off the feature, it will go back to normal tomorrow.

Re: What have google done??
 

very arty i'll kepp mine as is for now and see if it gets on my nerves :)

Re: What have google done??
 

I'm finding it very distracting and annoying. Give me back my clean white page!!

Re: What have google done??
 

I'm using Chrome and IE getting it in both

Re: What have google done??
 

I just switched to google.com instead of .co.uk and have the plain white page back

Re: What have google done??
 

And for those that enter google.com, and get google.co.uk, try: www.google.com/ncr
NCR stands for No Country Redirect as far as i can gather :)

Re: What have google done??
 

Mmm Google emulating the background used in bing.com - surely Google are not following Microsoft's lead ;)

Re: What have google done??
 

like they didn't do with that useless sidebar

Re: What have google done??
 

I use


https://www.google.com/


still plain there.

Re: What have google done??
 

I don't understand the ins and outs of how it works but I use Google . co .uk as my Firefox Home page and it comes up as normal. If I go to that address manually I get a background image.

Re: What have google done??
 

The best thing about Google used to be speed and simplicity of presentation.

I hate the new "improved" Google front screen, it's a mess!!! When I do a simple search I don't want to have to login to get special settings, I want the old speed and simplicity back.

Personally I think they have scored an "own goal" with regard to the search engine part of their business!