Google drops background images on homepage


GOOGLE spruced up its homepage with images from artists, sculptors and photographers on Thursday, but dropped the feature after drawing the ire of users clamouring for the normally blank background.

The rotating images designed to show off a new feature that lets users personalise their wallpaper originally were intended to be on display on the Google.com homepages of users around the world for 24 hours.

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