Nikhil Vishnu

Add background image to Google’s home page

Google goes colorful like Bing. Now you can put any images as the background of your Google home page. Google puts a link “Change background image” at the bottom left of the home page for changing the background. You need to login to your Google account before changing the background.

Rather than have a daily image served to you like Bing does, Google lets you select an image from your own computer, your Picasa album, Picasa featured images and images recommended by Google. Google recommend that your background Images must be at least 800 x 600 pixels and in one of the following formats: .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .gif, .psd (Photoshop), .png, .tga, and selected RAW formats.

This new feature is independent of iGoogle. Checkout Google’s official blog post here for more details