Google gets Bingified
Although Microsoft’s Bing has only made a minor, though respectable dent in the search market, it’s certainly been more effective than Redmond’s past efforts, holding 2nd place, what with it providing backend support for Yahoo search, and making deals to get on the iPhone.
Last month, Google‘s search results got a makeover, which gave them a much more ‘bing-like’ look, and now Google’s gone one step further. The Google home page now has an image background, just like Bing. Although it doesn’t feature the ‘hotspots’ of Bing where you can click around certain areas to find more information, Google does have a link at the bottom of the page that let’s you change the background image. Of course, added ‘features’ on the search input page are ultimately superfluous, but at least in the case of Bing, when you click on one of those hotspots, it’s implying either how trivial your initial seach was in the first place, or how easily distracted you are in general.
In the arena of useless features though, Google’s background switcher makes Bing’s hotspots look downright useful. Of course, this doesn’t change the quality of the searches.
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