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• The internet is a worthless swamp. I get the metaphor google. : trove
• yes : derelict515
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  Screenshot? : ventro
  • nvm http://cl.ly/986c4eb3a3e475458715 : ventro
  • http://www.shackpics.com/files/google_jcbiigkmien2mz0gqhxa.jpg : givemesnacks
  • Ew : bolneze
• I was going to ask the same thing, but I had no idea if I was the only one or if it's been like this for ... : thetangent
• Looks normal to me >_> : Ambient80
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  I hate changes like this. I'm not even going to rationalize it. Now get off mah lawn. : owly
  • I just made my background a lawn. Now YOU get off my lawn! : DooBall
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  As much as I have always denied and fought against it for like my entire career, people just love to cust... : haiku
  • But Google was the last nerd bastion. No longer...no longer... :( : Ovate
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    mine is goatse!!!! : GloriousCow
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      goatse is really the division point of a generation. It's our generation's walking to school uphill in th... : haiku
      • old like a lemonparty : GloriousCow
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    migration from myspace to facebook shows otherwise, but i guess people hate looking at others customizati... : threeup
    • You know I am glad you mentioned myspace. I wanted to mention it in my post because when that happened, I... : haiku
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  I've always identified with Google just having a simple, plain white page This seems to go against wha... : indosauros
  • It all started with the top menus fading in. I don't get it. It's like adding mods to a Corolla. : owly
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  How can I opt out of this? I tried changing the background to white and it looks stupid. : freshyk
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    I tried adding a background which adds a "Remove background" link to the bottom left, but that just takes... : owly
    • Yeah I hope it's an oversight that will be fixed soon. This is so ugly. : freshyk
    • This is pretty annoying. : Greymatter42
    • same here. can't get it back to normal. very annoying. : h4wk
• I think so. I prefer Bing's way of doing it, which is a random image by default. : mnok
• Google, I am disappointed. : re-verse
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  Also the the thought of how much bandwidth that stuff is using hurts my head. In a single day google prob... : haiku
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    I doubt it because users have to manually select a background if they want one. The link is not too notic... : mnok
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      i didn't select anything, i just went to google.com and there it was : GloriousCow
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        oh wow really? for me it was standard white by default : mnok
        • it faded in after a moment. : GloriousCow
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          Yeah the pic I posted above is what the default seems to be. : givemesnacks
          • Oh wait mine is doing random images now. : givemesnacks
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  Can't you just block it ? : abrasion
  • Yup. Change your homepage to about:blank and use the search bar. :/ : owly
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  Fucking christ Google, I don't want a fucking background image for my search page. Jezzus I fuck hate pe... : trove
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    It's so terrible!!! : derelict515
    • Lol. My entire universe has been upended!!!! : trove
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  http://www.blackle.com : Piett23
  • I like how they claim they are still saving power when most of the world uses LCDs which technically use ... : rick
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  Google's blog post about it -- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/art-of-homepage.html : ovrlrd
  • slight hijack: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/05/chicken-la-king.html Post on their blog from th... : IndigoAK
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  The default Firefox Google page hasn't changed : Sludgehead
  • http://www.google.com/firefox : Sludgehead
• Sure doesn't show up in my Igoogle. : hashd
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  Bing'd? : ArtilleryMarker
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    That would be bung. : re-verse
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      ring -> rang. therefore it should be bang as a verb. I bang with a pretty wallpaper : threeup
      • I would argue that bung is still more appropriate. : re-verse
• i like it : dromo5
• uh oh looks like grandma is gonna call tech support again http://gizmodo.com/5559084/tech-support-call-w... : Metatron85
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  I just got this on the Google homepage. First thing to come out of my mouth: What the fuck, Google? Why i... : MercFox1
  • "Yes, I'd like to change my desktop. My browser wallpaper.. My backscreen picture when I'm searching in ... : Goto10
• Looks normal to me. Although I am logged in and iGoogle is my default start page. : Mmmmmoo
• Not a bad feature, but nothing I would ever notice since I search from Firefox and not Google's homepage. : SigmaDraconis
• naw, just naw! : MatzL.E.
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  UGH FUCK this is gross - yes, I can choose a picture - sweet! I can then remove it but it defaults to som... : abrasion
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    I assume that is just there for the day. : peanut-
    • Let us pray - do you know how many help desks are being called right now? : abrasion
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  Classy. Changing it to white still leaves the text white. : Kylegar
  • Yep I just uploaded an 800x600 white image and it still looks like shit : abrasion
• Maybe they are trying to "new coke" us here, so everyone gets pissed, demands the old google back, and ma... : re-verse
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  according to this page, it's just for 24 hours... then it goes back to white. is the mirror a good sourc... : crust
  • and https://www.google.com/ is white if 24 hours is too long to wait : crust
  • It's about as good as using TMZ for the latest iPhone news. : losimagic
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  good thing I never visit the google home page : mikecyb
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    i would never know about all these things they do on the search page if people didn't post about them. c... : Sapiens
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      yeah I haven't had a reason to visit google's homepage in a while now : mikecyb
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        except to see what all the fuss is about : mikecyb
        • last time i was actually at plain old www.google.com was to see pacman i think : Sapiens
        • yup, I just use the search bar or google.com/ig (which is my home page so only use that when I just open ... : moe6
      • iGoogle is my zen. : Amnesty_intl2
• You pussies complaining about not being able to get rid of it are worse than the 60 year olds whining tha... : fishbone