This morning I like many have found that google has took it upon them to fix something that is not broken! For years google has kept a clean screen and just the google box to go find the information you require.
Companies love it as there are no distractions around the screen so employees can “google” get the information they want etc, compared with bing, yahoo etc where your surrounded by news on the latest Z list celebrity etc.
So today I find the most annoying picture I have seen in years, Annoying as you can’t see some of the text on screen!!
How do you turn it off? Simple question and you would expect an “I just want the plain default screen option”
Sadly not, if go to the bottom left off the screen you get a change background image. But then this asks you to login to change the background so what happens if you don’t have a google account and you don’t want to sign up for one?
Well your stuck or you could use https://www.google.com/ which is googles SSL version of their search engine, SSL stands for secure socket layers which is what banks and payment sites use to keep your data secure.
Thought it won’t be long before they impose an image on that site no doubt, hopefully by then though they will have understood that the majority of people just want to search for information.
I do like the google for doodles though!
Or if you sign in and then click the change background at the bottom left you can look at editors picks or upload your own image, Editors picks provides a white blank image which is marginally better
