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Comment by andybak | Hacker News Reader

Am I missing something or are the words 'remove background image' not really easy to spot on the Google homepage?

Those words aren't on the Google homepage.

Only after reading your post, I found a link labelled "Change Background Image" effectively camouflaged on the bottom left of the page, but this only allows me to select an alternative but equally obtrusive image.

There does not appear to be any immediate way to eliminate the background image entirely and revert to the clean, usable design that I expect from Google.

you have to click change background, then select the white one at the very end of the list.

The problem with that is that it doesn't change the color of the text back, so you get white on white (except for the buttons).

I don't see a white background in the list at all. It only gives me the fifteen rotating images to choose from.

After you change the background image, the words change to 'Remove background image' which seems unintuitive since it puts the first background image back up.

Unfortunately, you can only do that if you've got a Google account, which I do not.

Use https://www.google.com Downside: no gmail links etc

The text only came up when I started using my mouse - if I just started typing, I would never have seen it. Also, the text was white, and happened to be positioned over a very light / white part of the picture, so I can understand how it could be missed.

They're pretty easy to spot if you've actually set the background image. If not, you get a default image and there's no way to go back to the white background other than uploading a white graphic.

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