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Anti-SOPA Blackout Day: Google Censors Homepage in Protest

Several big websites and web companies have banded together to protest SOPA and PIPA, the two anti-piracy bills that threaten to do a lot more bad than good. Google has been a strong critic of SOPA, one of the few really big web companies that is doing so, unlike say Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and so on. Google is now...

18 January 2012
03:53 GMT

Google Uses Homepage to Advertise 'Offers'

While some may be disillusioned with daily deals, Google is doubling down on them, using its sacred homepage to promote a local daily deal, coming via its Google Offers platform. Google rarely uses its homepage to promote its products and has never put third-party ads on it.Now, according to several reports, Google h...

1 September 2011
10:30 GMT

Google Confirms Redesigned Homepage, Starts Testing More Widely

Not that anyone hadn't noticed by now, but Google has acknowledged that it's working on redesigning its search website. In fact, Google is working on a company wide redesign, all of its products will get freshened up and it all links to the recently revealed Google+.Over the past few weeks, the last couple ...

29 June 2011
05:21 GMT

Experimental Google Homepage Design Drops 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Button

Google is testing a redesigned homepage and search results page. This is hardly something surprising, Google is always running experiments and tests, but this latest one seems rather widespread. The new homepage features no "I'm feeling lucky button" and only a single, blue search button.The search results page ...

20 June 2011
05:08 GMT

Google Runs 16 Mr. Men and Little Miss Doodles in the Same Day

Google is always trying to outdo itself with the doodles it sports on the homepage for special occasions. Sometimes it's with intricate, interactive logos, sometimes it's with videos, but other times, like today, it's doing it by sheer numbers.Google has had 'multi-page' doodles before, but i...

9 May 2011
08:30 GMT

Google Is Experimenting with a Flashy New Top Toolbar

Google is experimenting with a couple of tweaks to the homepage and the search results page. The top toolbar visible on all Google properties is getting a revamp which is now in testing. What's more, Google is also experimenting with bottom ads in search results. The revamped toolbar is a huge update over the ex...

15 October 2010
13:24 GMT

Agatha Christie Doodle Is the First Since Google Instant Launched

Google doodles are very common and the search engine regularly marks events and celebrations with a custom logo. Today it's running an "Agatha Christie" doodle to commemorate the author's birthday. In itself, the doodle is nothing special, but it is the first doodle displayed on Google.com since Google Inst...

15 September 2010
10:28 GMT

Google ‘I Love Football’ Doodle Competition Enters the Final Round

For a couple of months now, Google has been running the “I love football” doodle competition. It’s the first international doodle competition and the response so far has been pretty impressive. Kids from the 17 participating countries sent in their designs and the best one in each state has already ...

22 June 2010
12:33 GMT

Google Pulls Homepage Background Image Showcase Early

To showcase a new feature, Google ran a series of photo backgrounds on its homepage internationally yesterday. The idea was to show off the new custom background feature, which had been rolled out to everyone. But several hours into what was supposed to be a 24-hour showcase, Google pulled the feature claiming that a...

11 June 2010
04:23 GMT

The Google Homepage Gets a Background Image by Default

Google introduced a cool new feature last week, which allows you to customize the Google homepage with an image of your choice. It was first introduced to US users and Google said it would eventually be made available to everyone. The roll-out is now complete and the customizable background feature is currently live ...

10 June 2010
04:12 GMT

Get the New Custom Background Google Homepage Now

Google is well underway rolling out the new custom background feature for the Google homepage. Announced a couple of days ago, Google said all US users should be getting it by the end of the week. But if you can’t wait any longer, there’s a way of tricking Google into enabling the feature on your account....

4 June 2010
10:47 GMT

Customize the Google Homepage with Your Own Background Image

The Google homepage is one of the most iconic web pages. It has gone through a rather thorough redesign recently, but it’s still as recognizable as ever. Since its launch, the page’s defining characteristic has been its simplicity and minimal design. Google is now rolling out a feature that will put an en...

3 June 2010
03:51 GMT

Google Creates a Permanent Home for Awesome Pac-Man Doodle

Google’s Pac-Man celebrations turned out to be a great success. In many ways, it was a first for Google and there were definitely some risks involved, after all the Google homepage is one of the most trafficked web pages in the world, but it paid off big time. People really enjoyed playing Pac-Man inside the Go...

24 May 2010
09:15 GMT

Love It or Hate It, the New Google Design Is Here to Stay

Google launched a brand-new design last week, one that has been testing publicly for many months and that has been in the works, in one way or another, for years. The new Google homepage and search results page liven up things a little and are generally cleaner, more colorful, but without feeling cluttered. Most peop...

10 May 2010
10:50 GMT

Google’s Rejected Homepage Designs - Pics

Google has recently revealed its redesigned homepage and has been rolling it out to users around the world. It’s a massive overhaul and one of the biggest changes in history for Google, certainly in the last decade. As you can imagine, the decision was not made lightly. In fact, work on the new homepage can be ...

7 May 2010
09:47 GMT

Google Homepage Redesign Rolls Out to a Lot More Users (Pics)

Google's highly anticipated homepage redesign has just gone live for a bunch of more people. As expected for such a big change, Google has been testing the new homepage and search results page for several months, making tweaks and adjustments based on the user feedback it got from early testers. Now, it seems th...

1 April 2010
07:27 GMT

An Updated Google Homepage Redesign Spotted in the Wild (Pics)

Google.com is getting a redesign, perhaps the biggest in history. Considering Google's reluctance to change anything on the homepage or search results page and its predilection to test every small change in excruciating detail, it's understandable that the engineers and designers are taking their sweet time...

27 February 2010
08:01 GMT

Google Is Asking Children for Doodles

Hardly a week passes that Google doesn't sport a new doodle to replace its, very well known, logo on the homepage. It employs a team of artists to create doodles for all sorts of celebrations and commemorations. The doodles have become a fixture on the site and for a few years Google has also been running the D...

4 February 2010
03:01 GMT

The Nexus One Gets Spotlighted on the Google Homepage

As expected, Google is firing on all cylinders promoting its first mobile phone, the Nexus One. The phone will only be sold online, so it will need all the marketing it can get and so far Google seems to be delivering. If you want proof, look no further than the Google homepage which now prominently features an ad f...

7 January 2010
07:20 GMT

Google's Ultra-Minimalistic Homepage Goes Live for Everybody

If you thought that Google's homepage couldn't possibly be more stripped down, think again. Google is now making its fade-in homepage official and most users should start to see the ultra-minimalistic homepage from now on. The page features just the Google logo, the search button and the I'm feeling l...

3 December 2009
05:10 GMT

Test the Brand-New Google Homepage Redesign Yourself – Screenshots

Google is always tweaking the design of its products even, or especially, that of its search engine. The site has evolved in time but for the most part the changes have been subdued and discrete. Not anymore though, Google is planning a major revamp of its search engine, by Google standards anyway, promising to be th...

25 November 2009
14:21 GMT

Google Extends the Fading Homepage Tests

Google is constantly tweaking and updating its products and the homepage isn't spared. But if you thought that something as iconic as the Google homepage would be spared of any major change, especially considering that the 11 or so years it has been around haven't taken too much toll on it, you'd be wr...

2 November 2009
11:41 GMT


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