WTF GOOGLE!

[nd4spdbh2]

WTF GOOGLE.... u have always had a simple plain easy to use homepage.... why ruin it with the addition of a background that fades in.... i want my plain white back!

[johan851]

Yeah, it's really annoying. I use Google because it's quick, and now they've gone all Bing on us.

[CharlieCS]

Firefox homepage is still as plain as ever :D

[Mother Goose]

WTF GOOGLE.... u have always had a simple plain easy to use homepage.... why ruin it with the addition of a background that fades in.... i want my plain white back!

I don't mind it. I quite like it, actually.

Actually, it's been eons since I've used the Google homepage, since any searches are done using the search-bar on firefox.

[nd4spdbh2]

Firefox homepage is still as plain as ever :D

eh i google and the FF homepage are way to overcomplicated IMO.

[wingman99]

I totally agree I hate all the extra garbage, even here on oc with the smilies next to this page.:(

[hank123]

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OH ya reminds me of this place
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really come on people. people dont like change a first just like with the forums recall? Now u like it.
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[updawg]

This isn't perminant. They are just showing you their background feature which you can enable in your google preferences.

[EarthDog]

Whats the beef sir? Its just a backround it doesnt change its ease of use at all.

+1 it can be disabled anyway sooooooo... ?

[c627627]

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=645940


1. It's supposedly only for 24 hours.
2. Logging in to be able to disable it is not an answer, Google already stores each & every search we ever make on our IP addresses.

3. This is the answer:

Use Firefox and install this add on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/

Right click on Google page > NoScript > Forbid google.com

Nuke that crap like that w/o having to log into anything to disable it.

[johan851]

Whats the beef sir? Its just a backround it doesnt change its ease of use at all.
It changes the ease of use because it's slower now. Google is so fast that an addition like this makes searching take more than twice as long.

The reason you go to www.google.com is so you can get away from it as quickly as possible. Loading the background impedes that process.

[jhanby]

It changes the ease of use because it's slower now. Google is so fast that an addition like this makes searching take more than twice as long.

The reason you go to www.google.com is so you can get away from it as quickly as possible. Loading the background impedes that process.

I whole-heartedly agree with this.

[lordkosc]

eh i google and the FF homepage are way to overcomplicated IMO.

http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&safe=active

That is too complex ? :confused:

[EarthDog]

It changes the ease of use because it's slower now. Google is so fast that an addition like this makes searching take more than twice as long.

The reason you go to www.google.com is so you can get away from it as quickly as possible. Loading the background impedes that process.How though? By the time my mouse gets to click on the text bar, the pic is loaded...less than a second easily... This is with a dual core 2.4GHz e6600 bone stock (work pc). Point is nobody does anything different a picture pops up while oyu move your mouse to the typing area.

I dont know, it just didnt phase me. :shrug: :bday:

[c627627]

People used to superfast computing of today cannot explain to others why 0.x seconds matters. Well it matters a great deal. Problems surface when someone who's actually in charge doesn't understand that and ruins it for the rest of us.

If it isn't "instantaneous" - it's too slow for work.

[c627627]

People used to superfast computing of today cannot explain to others why 0.x seconds matters. Well it matters a great deal. Problems surface when someone who's actually in charge doesn't understand that and ruins it for the rest of us.

If it isn't "instantaneous" - it's too slow for work.

[Mother Goose]

Google is so fast that an addition like this makes searching take more than twice as long.

Twice? Okay. Back that up.

[wingman99]

Computers are not getting faster the GHz race is over, I don't think 6 cores will help load the bloated google page faster.

[||Console||]

google.ca still looks plain as ever

[EarthDog]

OMG people...bloated google page is a back round? You are now faster than the back round load to get to the typing? A back round slows the search?

Im speechless.

[Mpegger]

Yes, OMG. Did you forget about the people still stuck on dial-up across the US, let alone across the globe? What's an extra second or two to us who have a high-speed internet connection, could translate to a minute or two for someone still on dial-up. And to have to create an account simply to disable it (if you don't know the other methods) is not a reasonable solution either.

[KonaKona]

I just changed it to my desktop background.

I can't post it here. :)

[noxqzs]

Even if this is a trial for one day, changing these options and requiring the user to have to log in to revert those changes is a tactic I frown upon. My common sense would say: start with a basic building block that everyone gets to modify. In other words, a minimalistic approach. The way this is being applied, I find similar to how Facebook changed privacy settings. It is also similar to how programs are bundled with add on toolbars and homepage resets. There is an assumption that people want things a certain way, and it is done as a convenience.

[Gautam]

I'm confused, it seems the same as always to me. I don't have any special backgrounds or fading or whatever.

[c627627]

That's because so much hell was raised this morning *everywhere* that Google's artists cut their "experiment" short so it's over now. Hopefully never to return.

[kayson]

Am I the only one who thinks it has something to do with the oil spill...even thought they said it doesnt...

[Enablingwolf]

:D hahhahaahaa Enjoy


http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20007287-71.html

[Shiggity]

You guys don't use a Super Bar in your browsers?

My address line is the google search, never have to go to their site.

[nd4spdbh2]

i was so glad when that crap was over and done with.... ok ya allow people to add a background... but dont force it or make me go through hoops to get rid of it.

its not that it was slower in my case (26mbit down Fiber net and 50ms pings to googles server) it was the fact that it made their perfect clean page WAY complicated to my eyes...

http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&safe=active

That is too complex ? :confused:

that firefox start page.... has about 30 more things on it than the google.com page... the google.com page has all of 4 things on it.

http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&safe=active

That is too complex ? :confused:

:D hahhahaahaa Enjoy


http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20007287-71.html

OMFG that was halarious

You guys don't use a Super Bar in your browsers?

My address line is the google search, never have to go to their site.

Its funny... i have my address bar in firefox set to do google searches / im feeling lucky stuff (the default FF settings) as well as the google search bar on the right top... but i NEVER use the google search bar for what ever reason... never liked it

[johan851]

Twice? Okay. Back that up.
When the page finishes loading, the cursor appears in the search form box. That's when I can start typing - otherwise I have to get the mouse there. When that picture slowly fades in, I have to wait for it to finish loading before I can start typing in my search. It's at least two times as long, but I'm not going to pull a stopwatch out and try to measure it for you. :)

[johan851]

People used to superfast computing of today cannot explain to others why 0.x seconds matters. Well it matters a great deal. Problems surface when someone who's actually in charge doesn't understand that and ruins it for the rest of us.

If it isn't "instantaneous" - it's too slow for work.
Absolutely true. Google knows this, too. All of their pages have a white background. Why? Because people perceive it to be faster than a black background. Speed - those hard-to-count milliseconds - are a huge deal online. Whether or not it actually affects productivity is irrelevant; people 'feel' it whether they measure it or not, and user experience is huge.

[sandyduff]

My google homepage is still plain white...? and im using google chrome... :shrug:

[c627627]

That's because it's over, you are late to the party.

On the same day of the fiasco they just again replaced Google with a "pretty picture". I thought it was OK for them to do this every once in a while but after today it's getting ridiculous.

They should have a normal Google page we can Bookmark, which never changes font or look or anything.

[thideras]

I thought it looked cool. :shrug:

I know you can enable it again, but raising a fuss over a test is a bit silly. Yeah, it took me a few tenths of a second longer, which was annoying, but it didn't hurt me at all.

[c627627]

Oh well look at Mr. 8000 baud n' his 56k V.92... :D

[CompuTamer]

I like it personally :chair:

[c627627]

You guys also use your Desktop for looking at a pretty picture instead of using it to keep your shortcuts on, don't you? :)

[whooping_a_panda]

i like the little touches they do to their logo for those special occasions. like todays Jacques Cousteau's birthday, didnt know that before, clicked the banner and viola i learned something new. but i also like google for its overall simplicity and if i wanted google to look like bing and give me a large landscape windows-esque desktop image to look at, i'd use bing, or just stare at a default desktop image and skip the searching all together... but i don't.

[Albaholic]

:D hahhahaahaa Enjoy


http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20007287-71.html


I can't even bring myself to listen to the entirety of that. Reminds me too much of work.:bang head