Google Does a ‘Bing,’ now offers image on home page
There’s something about Bing’s homepage that draws us to use their search– BUT not really. We wrote about Micrsoft’s search engine “Bing” a while back and thought it didn’t offer anything new and we still like using Google.
What Bing does have is aesthetics. The home page is so pleasing to the eyes with it’s high quality photos and breathtaking images that you just want to stay there. It is attention grabbing and that’s probably among their best strengths. Needless to say, it didn’t take long for search giant Google to catch on… Introducing, just went live a few days ago– Google’s new homepage with images and the ability to ‘personalize’ it with your own photo!
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery they say. Indeed, in this case.
via Google blognews
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June 16th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
It seems like this was easy enough for Google to do, considering they’ve allowed gmail users to choose backgrounds for a while.
I haven’t been to the Google search page for a long time, considering the ease of using search plugins in the browser toolbars. I noticed Google still defaults to the original look. I would have missed the link at the bottom for changing the image if it hadn’t been for your blog post.
After I chose a background, I was so enthralled with the picture that I didn’t feel like searching for anything. I wonder whether they’ll get fewer searches from people who choose to have backgrounds.