Those set on choosing a custom background on Google.com's engine will have to wait. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, explains in a
update to a blog post how a glitch in the system has prompted a rollback to simplicity.
"We had planned to run an
explanation of the showcase alongside it—in the form of a link on our homepage," Mayer writes. "Due to a bug, the explanatory link did not appear for most users. As a result, many people thought
we had permanently changed our homepage, so we decided to stop today’s series early."