“Hasn’t Ask.com been giving the ability to add themes to the search engine for much longer than both Google and Bing, though?”

That is what I was thinking as I read the title of the article. (:

As i said earlier google is copying the background feature from Bing… http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/09/google-adds-a-background-image-to-its-homepage-by-default-at-least-for-24-hours/#IDComment79459584

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But I am on the mainland. Why would I need to buy a ticket? I’m CONFUSED NOW.

Couldn’t you have just retweeted that tweet?

In fairness to Microsoft at least the Bing background is semi-educational and interesting. The Google background is just rubbish. It’s too big, too bright and I can’t turn it off.

What were Google thinking?

Or they can retweet the tweet with a link to this post. Meta, baby.

Exactly Ask was the first to do this and even Dog pile did this before Bing and Google, but they never boasted like this. Maybe Microsoft is trying to take advantage of the smallest things to gain back their reputation.

Come on guys, Google didn’t do this in response to Dogpile or Ask. This is a response to Bing. Whether you think it matters or not is a different question.

I like google’s implementation! I can change the background with my own photos or change it back to white if I want. It’s easy to do. I can’t find a setting on bing to do that??? maybe i’m missing something . . . .

I hate it! Could not turn it off.

Added removed google.com from noscript’s white list this works at least for now back to the old screen

google should reply: “we’ve lost a somewhat decent algorithm….”

I liked Google’s simple clear window. I can’t stand the background images they’re now displaying.

Please take it off!!

You can change it back to white by selecting “change background image” . . selecting “Editor’s Pick” . . scroll down to “white” . . .Google is only doing this for a day for an artist promotion.

Typical of M$ BS, copy what others do, call it their own and mock the rest. This company is doomed to fail without Bill Gates(a true leader).

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Ask.com had backgrounds way before Microsoft’s search effort was even an idea.

Ahem, anyone in the business world will tell you that
when the competition comes up with a good idea that you copy it and improve on it. To do otherwise is stupid and stubborn. Google is acknowledging the good idea that it is. Although I prefer no image – and that’s what I set it to.

I liked the background image concept. i can replace the default image with one of my own images.

dont care who’s idea it is

I can’t able to believe this one.

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No one cares. Google has better search results than Bing.

Replaced the background image with a picture of my toilet…splendid.

Google Calendar had background images over a year ago, possibly before Bing even launched.

It is only for today. It will be changed back to white and then you will have the option to change it whenever you want.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=52d49a85dcfbdb9f&hl=en&fid=52d49a85dcfbdb9f000488a67e02feaa

[...] 6月10日付のTechCrunchEurope内の記事によると、「トップページにカスタム背景画像を設定出来る新機能」の宣伝のために、Google がトップページを (一時的に) デフォルトで背景画像付きにした事を受けて、Microsoft Europe チームが以下の tweet をした。 “We’ve lost a background image, if found please return to bing.com ” [...]

haaha this is my favorite!!!

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/02/google-lets-us-wallpaper-the-search-page-i-set-mine-to-a-bing/

Guys, be honest, just not hate MS because thats fashionable on internet. Background images may have been used earlier like Ask. But there is no doubt MS brought it to mainstream, making it popular as it is today and Google is at least inspired by Bing’s success.

If Google would have launched it and MS would have copied it, everyone would have bashed MS, this time Bing definitely does not deserve the bashing.

This coming from a company that prides itself on re-marketing the innovations of others. Has Microsoft ever had an idea of its own?

didn’t microsoft copy google by going into search in the 1st place?

didn’t microsoft copy google by going into search in the 1st place

Hate the background clutter?

Just change your home page to:

http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

This works on ALL browsers, even though it’s the Firefox Google search page. Of course, if you were using FF you wouldn’t have been bothered in the first place.

I don’t care if they copied it. Since when is a backround image origial anyway. At least now I can enjoy having toothless the dragon as my backround without all the shotty search results

i still use Archie

Bing added a Language Translator Addon for IE. Obviously this was stolen from Google in retaliation.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/18494/translate-languages-in-ie-8-with-bing-translator/

It doesn’t seem like copying to me. Bing has the interactive features of the homepage that changes daily. Google just has a plain image. If you ask me, Google copied Ask.com.

who the hell uses ie anyway

No one who knows what a “web browser” is, but there are still a couple hundred million enterprise users who are given little choice.

My point was that Google has had a language translator built in to Chrome for some time. If Microsoft is adding it to IE now, you could use their same tweet against them.

“We lost our Translator, if found please return to google.com”

(Needless to say, I know there were translators before Google added theirs.)

Relax, people. Clearly, the tweet is just making fun of the situation. I think the smiley at the end of the sentence clears that up.

When MS copies something, everyone gets mad. But when it’s the other way around, everyone is still mad? Pathetic.

People are commenting Google copied this from Bing/Ask.com. But even before bing/ask.com a website called shinysearch invented this.

He he. It’s funny how we’ve gotten into deciding who did this first. Personally I somehow don’t think it was just a great idea, or wait, was it?

I guess I just prefer to keep my background white most of the time. But then, a beautiful photo now and then (whenever I use Bing ) should be all right too. So I guess, not minding who copied whom, its just a lighter moment if we smile at the tweet. And go ahead, nay?

That’s normal to hear coming from EU, to think that they have a long grudge with Google ever before.

Yeah, now Google looks like Bing, they should remove background images by default.

All these articles sure are driving a ton of people to Google.com – hahaha. Epic fail for Bing pointing people towards Google.

Not that Google needs more users or anything

sherm> isnt google copying MS&apple by going into the OS business..just a thought.

I love it that microsoft is trying to be funny. This time it worked for them and I hope we’ll see more of that.

Everyone copies everyone… this has happened since the dawn of man.

Will people please at least appear educated when doing the very old and boring “X copied Y”… “No, Y copied Z” crap.

If people didn’t copy ideas, and improve on them, then we’d still be in the dark ages (well worse actually).

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umm… who even uses bing.com?!?! there’s a reason “googling” has become a verb… it’s not called “binging”… so who really cares if google copied them?! i think it’s kind of a fun feature, for people who like that sort of thing, but there should definitely be an option to just keep it as the plain white screen. i liked the plain white screen! if i wanted to look at pictures, i could look at my desktop background or i could search for some images (on google, no less), but i don’t really need a huge glaring photo in the background of my search box. props for trying to be cool, but please bring back the default white screen option!

They are specifically referring to the picture used, rather than the idea of using pictures. Google used the exact same photo as bing used on their homepage.

Neither Bing or Google invented the “background” concept.

Ironic coming from a company who built their fortune off a third-rate ripoff of the Mac OS (which was a rip-off that improved on Xerox’s).

All design is theft.

Are you a moron?

Well, last time I checked, bing’s main page looks just as simple as google’s.

It doesn’t look like yahoo or msn. Why? because they know Google’s simplicity is it’s strength. The fact that bing copied the design – is a bigger rip off than a ‘background’.

Nothing wrong with a little bit of humor.

What amuses me most is that I was only made aware of bing’s ability to do this VIA google’s apparent copying of the feature, which to me says more about bing’s lack of traction than google’s aping.

So I guess Bing EU can laugh about that if they want to, and I’m not there to hear it, but in my mind, it’s high-pitched, nervous, acne-prone teenager laughter designed to cover the insecurity that comes with the knowledge that you’re a nobody.

I am pretty sure that the move from Google to introduce a background image, was to lure people into creating a google profile (to use own image you have to have an account). Not just this, but if people were logged in, I’m sure that would provide Google with great user based search information which it can use to better their search results. I doubt bing has much to do with it really

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Agreed with you, Yesterday when i checked out Google the background image was a total crap.
Period Bing’s implementation is better than Google.

Google these days hiring people to just copy features from other companies and their leader(Eric Schmidt) is their role model.

It starts from the top, Eric Schmidt this Faggot was stealing all iPhone ideas from Apple and no wonder Apple got pissed off and asked him to F*** Off from Apple. Now with no better work he is leading the effort of stealing and copying

Do TC writers know the meaning of the word mock?

“mimic- treat somebody or something with scorn: to treat somebody or something with scorn or contempt”

Look it up. On Bing.

“*mock -”

if a background image is the main feature of your search engine, you blew it

Microsoft mocking about someone else copying them? Are they stupid? Microsoft is the king of imitation. Basically everything they have ever produced is a copy of someone else’s idea.

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[...] TechCrunch reports Microsoft Europe took a jab at Google’s new search engine feature, that allows a custom background image on its search engine, with one of their tweets today stating, “We’ve lost a background image, if found please return to bing.com.” [...]

hey, at least microsoft give us something to talk to by doing this LOL

They lost a background image? I Google’d for it and think I may have found something

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M$ getting social?
M$ with a sense of humour?

The worlds gone mad, time for a lie down…

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I’ll give a big LOL for that tweet )

hahahaha.. funny thing..

Who is BING?

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The entire reason Google became popular as a search engine was because it loaded very quickly, gave you relevant search results, and gave those search results quickly. It is no longer quick. Two things are slowing it down now:
1. Huge background images.
2. That super annoying fade-in feature for their text and navigation.

Bing is a great example of using html5 to build a search engine, but it is also slow. I’m switching back to using Dogpile, which will search Google, Bing and Yahoo all at once.

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Good joke , a bit of humor is nice, especially from Microsoft. No need to make it a huge debate.

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hahaha nice tweet.. Viva la bing! Haha..

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it’s so funny…

I’ll give a big LOL for that tweet )

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Microsoft mocking about someone else copying them? Are they stupid? Microsoft is the king of imitation. Basically everything they have ever produced is a copy of someone else’s idea.

mocking the big G is never a wise move

Google to introduce a background image, was to lure people into creating
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