Google gets all arty with its homepage

Google have announced the launch of a new feature for its homepage – a Bing like feature that allows users to customise the background. And to mark the launch they decided, on Thursday 10 June, to change the homepage for everybody – cycling between photos from world famous photographers – going back to normal from Friday.

 

Google change results page for Chrome users

Google started introducing an expanded right hand side bar (under a plus button) to let you filter the results a while ago – it let you show results from within a time frame or from a certain type of site. Now, for users of the Chrome browser that side bar is more blocky – a sort of 1990s style channel bar – that lets you filter by the different types [...]