Google
Inc(NASDAQ:GOOG) had made an announcement in September that users would no
longer be able to upload pictures with Classic Plus that used to allow
selecting and uploading images to use as backgrounds on Google homepage. The
company said that the service will completely stop on 16th November.
Through
a notification on its homepage, Google is thanking its users, who presently use
the background image feature. It says that as the company works on a more
streamlined version of Google page for its users, it will not be able to
support customization with background images.
The
search engine giant is also in process of modernizing a number of aspects
including AdSense for Feeds that is slated to shut down totally on 3rd
December.
The
Spreadsheet Gadgets was also taken down since a number of popular gadgets are
now integrated into charts in spreadsheets. Google mentioned that it has plans
of phasing out the Spreadsheet gadgets that is scheduled to start next year.
The
‘Recommended Sections’ of Google News has been taken off on 15th
October.
This
is not all. +1 Reports in Webmaster Tools are supposed to phase out from 14th
November. Google mentioned in an official blog post that the company had
introduced the +1 Reports in Webmaster Tools to aid publishers in calculating
+1 activities on their pages. Since webmaster now use Social Reports in Google
Analytics in order to get a broader view of social activity, the company will
terminate the standalone +1 Reports on 14th November.
All
the aforementioned aspects have been started by Google as a part of its ‘Continued
Spring Cleaning’. Google has stated in an official blog post that technology
delivers several opportunities to help enhancing the lives of users. This
implies it is crucial to focus or one may end up doing too much with less
impact.
Not happy about it ._.
ReplyDeleteI'm really not happy about this at all. It really irks me the you people,"The Google Company," are going to do this to us google background picture users!!!! Shame on you for doing this to us!!!! You could've just left google the way it was, like before with google background images, but no, you guys have to change and delete it!!!! "Why!!!!!" "For what apparent reason?!!!!!!" It really makes me angry that there are Internet/Website changers at there on the computer!!!! Wowww!!!!! I'm really shocked and angry about this!!!! It really hurts me that you guys are going to distroy google like that!!!! It really isn't nice to not have any feelings or any emotions for other google users out there!!!!! That's a real shame!!!! Sincerely & Sadly, Rebecca Soogrim emails: rebeccasoogrim25@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteReally upset about the backgrounds guys. Really lowered my expectations. This is why Bing is suddenly getting more advance and enhance in every aspect.
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