These are awesome. I went to google to search for something and I got so distracted by trying out all the new backgrounds and how cool they looked that I forgot what I went to search for.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
me too!
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
Too funny.. I was just showing off my new background to my wife!
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
Google is doing this to stick it to Bing!. It looks great, though.
Posted by Geraine (Member # 9913) on :
My wife looked over last night and said "Ooooh how do I get Google to look like that on my computer?"
I'm using the tropical theme.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
They seriously annoyed me this morning, when they turned them on and before it was impossible to turn them off. I was this >< close to abandoning Google as my startup page.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
I noticed the "change the background" like a few days ago and ignored it. Now I feel like it's tossing up suggestions just to get my attention.
I dislike this change. Am I getting old?
--j_k
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
cool now you can customize your google just like you can customize your myspace, unlike boring old facebook that forces you to use the standard format and
...
*deletes all backgrounds, takes back generic white*
Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :
I was also in the "annoyed camp" this morning. I guess it's the Aspie in me, but I don't like when people change my stuff without consulting me - even when it's really their stuff! Of course, Pacman Google was fine with me, since it was a great time waster!
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I checked out the google backgrounds the other day when it was someone-or-other's birthday and there was a special graphic. When I had the special background up, I couldn't see the neato graphic, so I turned it back to basic white. I like all the homage google makes to random events and didn't want to lose it for some silly wallpaper. I have wallpaper on my desktop and my cell phone and everywhere else I look. I don't need it on google too.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
I fired off a complaint to Google immediately -- several times through fax, phone, email, and two snailmail (one registered) to several different contact divisions -- including a complaint about them not having a general complaint form or complaint department. And I've never bothered to even ask for an exchange for an obviously defective product before, which I also pointed out to the recipients of my missives.
I boot up in blank, then use Google as my homepage precisely because it's clean, without the clutter and garbage of virtually all other commercial websites.
So I found the idea of being spammed with backgrounds to force me to choose a background to be highly disturbing. Especially when Google's link to its background pages informed me that I could also choose background music. Yeah, just what I need next: Google spamming me with unwanted noise to force me to choose amongst its selection of other noises.
So along with my displeasure, I also informed Google that I had been VERY happy using their services since*before their searchengine was introduced to the public. And that I hoped to be able to use their services in the future.
* Yep, I had the connections. I was also downloading and uploading from home in 10seconds-or-less back when virtually every other home-user had to waste a minute-or-more to do the same thing. Heck I'd been following news of Brin&Page's activities since they first published "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine".
[ June 11, 2010, 02:38 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I thought it was nice and colorful.
I don't like that you can't see the doodle though.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
quote:I fired off a complaint to Google immediately -- several times through fax, phone, email, and two snailmail (one registered) to several different contact divisions -- including a complaint about them not having a general complaint form or complaint department.
google is serious business
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
I went to the Google home page and thought I was redirected to Bing.
I uploaded a solid black image as my background. Looks rather good, to be honest.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I had chosen a background and was trying to do a search and it kept not working -- it would just refresh the page every time I hit search. So I got rid of the background, and voila! Google search worked again. Anyone else experience this?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
It's bad enough making a new and widely unwanted feature opt-out instead of opt-in. But there's really no excuse for making it so that you couldn't opt out.