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No Need to Turn off the Annoying Google Homepage Background: Google Just Did it For You.

by Robert Quigley | 1:51 pm, June 10th, 2010

It looks like Google has listened to the thousands of complaints about the automatic, difficult-to-turn-off background on their front page: Google has just turned it off for you.

While the promotion was meant to just go on for today, Google’s VP for Search Products & User Experience, Marissa Mayer — who announced today’s 24-hour promotion on Google’s blog — just Tweeted out that the background change has been rolled back. If you go to Google.com, you will see that it has been done.

Meyer announced the change in a response to one dissatisfied customer: “Actually as of now :) @Jon_E Google search background back to normal tomorrow, says @marissamayer.”

While Google can’t be happy that this promotion turned out to be a flop, you’ve got to give them some credit for responding to customer complaints relatively promptly and not sticking too rigidly to a disliked plan.

If you’re one of that handful who actually like the Google homepage background, check out our instructions for how to turn it on and customize it.

  • http://www.thelyricvault.com LotteMae

    I’m not sure… I remember the nature of Google being clean, concise, and highly functional(?) Surely the background image thing is going against that nature?

    I’ve been using Gazoomy (http://www.gazoomy.com) for a while and it’s really slick in comparison – moveable search bar, on-the-fly search results, background images that are scaled to your monitor, and some nice transparency effects and look and feel.

    Fair enough, Google are trying to mimic what is a nice feature of Bing, but I still think they should keep things simple as that’s what most Google users appreciate.

    But yeah, have a look at http://www.gazoomy.com/. If Google want to go down the snazzy route then maybe they should get some inspiration from the small fry…

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