Tell them all "just go away"

[venta]

Dear Google,

It's not April 1st, y'know.

Cheers,

Venta

Comments

[ar-boblad.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? I can't disable this without being perma-logged in to Google? But I can change other settings like number of results per page? Gah!

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's worse than that: you can't disable it.

Even if you're logged in.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

But you can choose a plain light grey background (see towards the end of 'Editors' picks' in the selection box). We shouldn't have to do that at all, of course, but with any luck if Google realise that that is what everyone is doing, they will stop being such blethering idiots.

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Luckily it's only there for a day to demonstrate their new feature. But yes, it's a horrific eyesore.

[chrisvenus]

To be hoenst I think the .co.uk is a bug. If I go to google.com I get a plain white background that I can choose to add an image to. I think somebody put the wrong thing on the .co.uk server personally.

[chrisvenus]

Or possibly on consideration they've just bugfixed the main google page after complaints but its taking a while to push the change out to the country sites...

[venta.livejournal.com]

It is ? It will be gone away soon ? Where did you find that out ?

[chrisvenus]

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/art-of-homepage.html seems to be a good source of info.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's good then. Though to be honest, like several of the commenters below, I never usually see the homepage because I search directly from the Firefox Navigation bar, and that still takes me to results shown on an ordinary plain white background.

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

I use iGoogle as my homepage and do my searching either from there or from the nav bar. So yeah, I never see Google either!

[venta.livejournal.com]

You can do that, if you don't mind the text still being migraine-inducingly fuzzy and shadowed instead of plain typeface :(

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Where by 'disable' you mean 'set a background image dull enough not to hurt'?