Associated Press | If Google’s famously sparse home page is too
plain for you, the company is giving you some more options. A bold
color photo of sand dunes replaced the white background to Google’s
search box Thursday. You can replace the desert scene with an image of
your own or others available from Google. Or you can stick with the
classic format.

In a blog post last week, Google Inc. said the move is aimed at making
the “search experience more relevant, useful and fun through
personalization.”

It also follows an artistic choice made by Microsoft Corp.’s search
engine, Bing, which also uses images as a background to its search box.