Google, holy cow!

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Man that was weird. I have google as my homepage, just clicked
there and the background morphed into a design! Freaked me out!
Looks like google is letting you put a personal background on it.
That is just too cool. Be a google hater, but man are they inventive
and creative. But then, I wonder why they didn't think of it before!

Paul
#search engine optimization #cow #google #holy
  • Yeah Paul I just caught that too. Google just keeps stepping up their game every few weeks now. Serious heavyweight.
  • Wow, first they copy Bing with the search features on the left... now they copy the background image too.
  • Yep, They are starting to look alot like Bing...........interesting!

    Just My 2 cents
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    • Every time I try to go to Google my browser takes me to Bing
  • It does look good. They still let you play this as well...
    Google
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    • Most of the backgrounds (particularly darker ones) just make the whole thing look cluttered and harder to see.

      Not to mention the fact it makes things a little slow and clunky, the image and javascript, etc.

      From what I can see of the suggestions about "improving" this feature on Google Product Ideas, not a single person in the first few pages likes this change and all have asked for a way to opt out, or turn it off by default or remove it altogether.

      Simplicity is what makes Google popular. Their colourful logo on their homepage and SERPs is all the visual eye candy I need from them and makes their website look modern and up-to-date enough without this.
  • The Reason You Guys Are All Seeing This is Because Google Has Fully Rolled Out There Caf Index Today, The Old Index Is Dead, And A New Chapter Of Seo Begins....
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    • Hi, can you tell me what Caf means? And you say a new chapter of SEO..how so? What are the implications?

      Cheers
      Kassandra
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  • not sure i'm that keen on the new background thing
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    • Well, just shows that I never go to bing!
      In fact, I doubt if many have their homepage set as bing.
      Google lets you add a custom image and show it if you
      are logged in. Since gmail is the #1 free email in the world,
      I guess that's not a problem.

      After looking at bing just out of curiosity, it looks strangely
      like they actually copied google.com. Seems to me when bing
      came out it was quite cluttered. Now it's like google. So who
      copied who?

      Companies know a good thing when they see it.

      Paul
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  • Quite tasteful pictures though!
  • I think it's just temporary!

    Google is always changing their logo and stuff like that, and they can't really do that with a full screen background like that!
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  • The only reason why they're doing the background is for analytics. They want people to sign in and choose different backgrounds. Then they can track every search by the user and make everything more relevant. Basically, they want webmasters to lose money and rankings not to matter anymore.
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    • I love to hear conspiracy theories as much as the next guy, but why exactly would they want that?
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  • I wish Google would focus on search and stay out of the other stuff.
  • When Google first started to get noticed I seem to remember them being highly against companies being able to buy rankings.
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    Google, holy cow!

    Man that was weird. I have google as my homepage, just clicked there and the background morphed into a design! Freaked me out! Looks like google is letting you put a personal background on it.