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    Is this Google Background New?

    Is this a new feature where you can change your background for google search engine? I logged in today, was weirded out from strange colours. Then I booted it up again and its black and white flowers.

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    forget it, I think this has been around for a few months. close this plz

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    I don’t think it’s been around longer than a week – we certainly don’t have a thread on it.

    Interesting to see Google taking one of Microsoft’s ideas, although Bing probably implements it slightly better, I do like the full-screen-ness of Google’s idea.

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    Interesting, I'll still never see since I use chrome and search from the address bar.

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    HIGHLY annoyed by it. Their help forum has a ton of angry replies as well. There's no way to disable it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Genesis F5 View Post
    HIGHLY annoyed by it. Their help forum has a ton of angry replies as well. There's no way to disable it.
    Upload a white 1x1 gif?

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    not good enough. I still know there's a background there. My draw to Google has always been its optimized format.

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    So it has only been out for a little while? I was looking at Youtube and they had postings on it a few months ago. I wonder if that was for users that are logged in?

    Now are they doing it for everyone? Like you have to login and create an account to change this now?

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    i know they had the option of setting something, but now that its being forced on me i notice a serve lack my adult male oriented images.
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    Quote Originally Posted by silverx2 View Post
    i notice a serve lack my adult male oriented images.
    Looks like babelfish tried to vomit up a pron site.
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    lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Genesis F5 View Post
    not good enough. I still know there's a background there. My draw to Google has always been its optimized format.

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    You can remove it. On the bottom left of the page you should see 'Remove background image' if you have one already, and 'change background image' if you do not.

    I just removed it from my google before posting, as it seems to make the page load longer ...boring.

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    The "remove background image" option wasn't available earlier - just the "change background image" since I wasn't signed in and didn't want to.

    I don't think it was supposed to be removed since it was supposed to be a day long promotion for the new feature, but they ended up removing it earlier, no doubt because of feedback they received.

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