It was a cool idea while it lasted. If Google's famously sparse home page is too plain for you, the company wanted to give you some more options as a bold color photo of sand dunes replaced the white ...

Well, that sure didn’t work out as planned. Google pulled the plug on its home page background experiment Thursday, just hours after the day-long endeavor began. The G-Team had planned on featuring ...

Last week, we informed you that Google was introducing the option to have a custom image on your Google home page background, which essentially makes the Google search page look very similar to Bing.

Google (GOOG) added a splash of color to its plain-Jane white search home page Thursday. It has teamed up with noted artists like Dale Chihuly, photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and others to offer ...