To give the users a Microsoft Bing like taste Google offered its users a chance to redecorate their Google home page. Users were allowed to choose their own background photos and colors to brighten the otherwise plain white home page. However the move was withdrawn within just fourteen hours from the launch.
According to sources at the search giant it was supposed to be a twenty four hour experiment but was cut short pretty soon. The change wanted to showoff the company’s customable background option; and as other new features from the company it came as silently to the users as always. But the die hard Google users did not favor the idea at all. It seems they are way too familiar with the usual no nonsense plain background to welcome any new changes in it. The unacceptance from the users is one of the many reasons that led to the removal of the experimental home page and that too so early.
With so many things to distract attention the home page looked quite similar to the one offered by Microsoft Bing. The look seemed in exact same taste of the busy look of Bing. The change triggered many interesting and more that often remarks by users on twitter. By like the sport we know Google is it heeded to the request of the masses and removed the changes from the home page. By afternoon the disastrous experiment had become a history with the simple look returning back on the Google home page.
But Google defends its move and explains that the change was not permanent and it was actually due to a software bug that this fact was hidden from the users. Google Search VP Marissa Mayer said on this episode “We had planned to run an explanation of the showcase alongside it, in the form of a link on our home page,” Mayer further explains that “Due to a bug, the explanatory link did not appear for most users. As a result, many people thought we had permanently changed our home page.”
Google clearly set out note explaining as to why the experiment was abruptly stopped. The blame is put on a software bug that did not allow the users the option not to opt for the change if they did not wish to do so.
So for now the background difference between Bing and Google remains; with Bing having all its colors and Google satisfied with just white.