Did you get caught with Google‘s background this week? Yikes. I am pretty easy going, but this was so distracting. I enjoy the white background and simplistic home page for Google. It has everything right where you want it – easy loading page, easy navigating page. Suddenly on Thursday I landed on Google to find a faded white Google name – and all the navigation buttons white with a drop shadow and difficult to read; and then this slower loading huge image.
Next up how to change it. A handy “change the background” link in the lower left corner. The catalog of choices was few when I was there. I finally created my own and positioned it to just cover the white Google name. But, still their choice of white on white with a drop shadow was a bit odd for all the other buttons/links.
Their forums were lit up with unhappy users…and accusations of mimicking Bing flying furiously. (We DO take our Google seriously.)
Happy to find by Saturday Google abandoned the idea. Now, you can choose to have an image…or not. Thank you! I like a white background.