10-06-2010, 09:07
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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.
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10-06-2010, 09:11
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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.. 
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10-06-2010, 09:15
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Re: What have google done??
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
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.. |
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.
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10-06-2010, 09:18
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Re: What have google done??
Actually that looks very stylish,very minimalist. Nice.
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10-06-2010, 10:19
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Re: What have google done??
It's only temporary to show off the feature, it will go back to normal tomorrow.
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10-06-2010, 10:19
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Re: What have google done??
very arty i'll kepp mine as is for now and see if it gets on my nerves 
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10-06-2010, 12:02
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Re: What have google done??
I'm finding it very distracting and annoying. Give me back my clean white page!!
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10-06-2010, 12:13
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Re: What have google done??
I'm using Chrome and IE getting it in both
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10-06-2010, 12:32
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Re: What have google done??
I just switched to google.com instead of .co.uk and have the plain white page back
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10-06-2010, 12:48
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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
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10-06-2010, 12:52
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Re: What have google done??
Mmm Google emulating the background used in bing.com - surely Google are not following Microsoft's lead
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10-06-2010, 13:44
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Re: What have google done??
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Originally Posted by Pog66
Mmm Google emulating the background used in bing.com - surely Google are not following Microsoft's lead |
like they didn't do with that useless sidebar
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10-06-2010, 17:18
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Re: What have google done??
I use
https://www.google.com/
still plain there.
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10-06-2010, 18:44
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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.
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10-06-2010, 19:12
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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!
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