Google page now lets you set your own background.

No problem, Chase. You don't need to rep me, I'm not looking for green blips.

Just here to help.

severedsolo said:

johnwillyums said:

Just tried to get google.com rather than google.co.uk so I could try the background thing.
Google Chrome won't let me. I either get google UK or iGoogle. Weird.

when it loads google UK in the right hand corner of the options underneath the search box it will say "go to google.com"

or you could say,

Code:

google.com/ncr

to goto google.com

nice one, I didnt know that, cheers gladson!

severedsolo said:

nice one, I didnt know that, cheers gladson!

I guess ncr stands for "No Country Redirect"

gladson1976 said:

severedsolo said:

nice one, I didnt know that, cheers gladson!

I guess ncr stands for "No Country Redirect"

That's a good guess. Out of interest, I tried to find an explanation to that. According to this blog posts confirms you are right: Lavanya Deepak: Google NCR -- -- Lavanya Deepak

Kari

Seems you can change it on any now There's the option on Google UK, and just tried FR and DE too and they have it as well.

can confirm google UK now lets you change it :) seems to have gone up overnight

severedsolo said:

can confirm google UK now lets you change it :) seems to have gone up overnight

Saw it there late last night, got one of my favourite Half Life 2 screenshots I've took on there: