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Interesting; it's probably an A/B test, since I'm not given that option. At the bottom left corner, my screen says, "Change background image."

EDIT: Actually, I selected a background, and then I was given the option to "Remove background image." Unfortunately, this just reset my background image to whatever Google had chosen for me.

That doesn't work for me -- just reverts to the default piggybank (?) photo.

If I select a "white" background, it doesn't give the old Google page -- it has translucent text with shadows. Looks super ugly. Very annoying.

Come on Google! People love you for your simplicity. That's one reason you broke away from Yahoo's then-dominance of search/startpages years ago.

hmm. when i go to my local google the remove background image does not work properly. but on google.com it works every time.