Google.co.uk - What are you at?

chunter

Just opened browser to find a slap of trees on my google.co.uk page.
With no obvious way of getting rid of them.

So I simply changed my homepage to Google.com immediately.

Hopefully everyone else will do the same and Google'll discover their stupidity and revert back to a basic search page.

Wallowing in their own arrogance, they've forgotten one of the main reasons they took that huge share of the market in the first place. An almost empty landing page... (compared to the obese front pages of MSN and Yahoo)

Esqui

Trees? Where is this?

kutsu119

A slap of trees? what?

I've just loaded it and it's the normal homepage, Safari 5.

ShaneUK

Looking normal to me as well..... I do know that they reguarly have a holiday logo, and it can be area/country specific.

mallada

Yep i have the trees, i am logged in to google which may make a difference. It seems you can now set your background image to what you want.

Look for "Curious about today's homepage? Add your own background image now" under the search bar and press this, it allows you to change the image to what you want. I don't see a plain white one but you could create a white one on your pc if you were bothered enough.

[EDIT] A plain white background can be found under editors picks.

rafter_2

I've got the stupid trees but when I click on a the change background link it takes me to gmail login to login and then change it I see.

Chris55_2

The point of this being, of course, that Google knows far more about you when you are "logged in". It makes money in leveraging this information so they'd like you to be logged in all the time, and are thinking up ideas to make this happen. It's up to you whether you care about this or not... but I agree that a sad change. But there's a big company to be paid for out there. If you think Google has your interests at heart then I suggest you get your financial advice from your Bank.

KingL

chunter wrote: »

So I simply changed my homepage to Google.com immediately.

That'll teach 'em alright! :rotfl:

I've got some kind of car-park-sized wine rack on mine.

If you mouse-over the section below the seach box there's a link that's labelled "
[SIZE=-1]"Curious about today's homepage? Add your own background image now" Presumably your trees are only temporary while they plug their new feature.
[/SIZE]

Kitty1

if you click the link in the bottom left, then click editors picks, you can select a plain white background

kwikbreaks

Hmmm...

Chris55 'Google knows far more about you when you are "logged in"'
KingL 'I've got some kind of car-park-sized wine rack on mine.'

So should we consider that to be case proven??

KingL

I resemble that remark (hic)