Google Bug

Bug Forces Google To Drop Homepage Art:

Due to a bug, Google on Thursday cut short plans to have rotating artwork on the search engine’s normally stark homepage for 24 hours.

Starting at just after midnight Eastern time, Google traded its usual white background for rotating photographs of the works of Dale Chihuly, Jeff Koons, Tom Otterness, Polly Apfelbaum, Kengo Kuma, Tord Boontje, and others.

The idea was to promote a personalization feature launched last week that let users choose their own background from photos on their computer, stored on Google’s Picasa photo service, or from a free Picasa photo gallery set up by Google.

However, after less than 14 hours, Google decided to go back to its traditional homepage because of a “bug,” Marissa Mayer, VP of search product and user experience at Google, said on Twitter.

As Joe always says, maybe they should have test more.

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