[ExI] Google mess

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Thu Jun 10 18:57:42 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> On 6/10/2010 12:49 PM, Dave Sill wrote:
>
>> Hmm... I'm not seeing anything close to visual clutter on the main
>> Google page, and I'm signed into my Google account and using GMail in
>> another window.
>
> Neither is my goodwife. Weird. Maybe I toggled some ghastly slideshow
> spacesaver display by mistake. The screen was showing huge vivid unignorable
> photos from edge to shining edge, of giant toys, trees, playgrounds, etc.
> Even now that I've banished them there's a blue script line at bottom left:
> Change background image.

Google kills background images on home page
CNET - Tom Krazit - ‎13 minutes ago‎
Background images were the temporary default look for Google.com
before being pulled earlier than expected. Fourteen hours into a
24-hour experiment with background imagery, Google's home page is once
again stark white.

-Dave




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