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New Google option: look like Bing home page

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Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:00 pm

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New Google option: look like Bing home page

Google is known for the “clean simple look” of its home page at Google.com. Bing has earned praise for the gorgeous photos changing daily on the Bing home page, stocked by Microsoft’s Corbis imagery.

Now Google has announced that you will be able to clutter up your Google.com page with a photo too.

Today, we’re introducing a new feature that brings a whole new level of personalization to Google by letting you add a favorite photo or image to the background of the Google homepage. You can choose a photo from your computer, your own Picasa Web Album or a public gallery hosted by Picasa which includes a selection of beautiful photos.

Jealous?

The Bing look option is being rolled out in the US.  You’ll know it’s reached you when you see a link on the lower left hand corner of the Google.com screen.

By the way, Bing allows you to switch off the photo and search from a plain page too.

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This post was written by:

Margot Williams

- who has written 49 posts on Inside Google.

Margot Williams has more than two decades of experience in roles as investigative researcher, research editor, database editor, technology trainer and library director at The New York Times, The Washington Post, Gannett newspapers and Time Warner. She was lead researcher on two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Washington Post for reporting on terrorism in 2002 and for an investigation of the use of deadly force by the District of Columbia police in 1999. Margot is the co-author of “Great Scouts! CyberGuides for Subject Searching on the Web” (Cyberage Books, 1999) and contributed to the “Networkings” column in The Washington Post for five years.

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2 Responses to “New Google option: look like Bing home page”

  1. Bob Says:
    4. June 2010 at 9:15 am

    You guys shouldn’t call yourselves “Inside Google”, but the “Otherside of Google”. It would be more accurate

  2. Geeky Karma Says:
    13. June 2010 at 11:07 am

    A Webcomic’s perspective :] – http://geekykarma.com/comics/feature-war/

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