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(Unverified)Jul 6th 2010 11:54AM
You have to laugh at Microsoft's response “How intriguing to see friends at Google borrowing the Bing homepage #photography idea". I've lost count of the number of Microsoft hosted seminars that I've been to and heard them rave about the new technology that has been invented... when in reality it's a load of codswollop (sp!?).
Bing wasn't exactly a pioneer for "wallpaper" now was it!? "Wallpaper" has been around for many many years and I'm not even sure if Microsoft Windows was the first OS to have that feature.
As for search engines, maybe some of you remember a fairly significant case a number of years ago where Google tried to sue the one-man web development company that created Groovle. Now that was a site which cleverly utilised Google's search engine but added wallpaper functionality. It hit the news because the monolithic Google lost on laughable "We are SKYNET" grounds.
But, if you take that into account, it was Google that indirectly had background wallpaper on their search engine. Yet again Microsoft have stepped in with their big feet claiming they invented it. Yep, right-o.
Moving on further than the Microsoft/Google squabbling, I don't think either Bing or Google are that innovative these days with their search engines. In my opinion the beauty of Google is the simplicity of it, and more importantly the efficiency of it. I'm an advocate for the small fry websites that excel in artistic merit as opposed to financial clout. Take the website Gazoomy (http://www.gazoomy.com) for example which lets you set background wallpaper for Google search. It features a dragable searchbar that seemlessly integrates with the background with a slight translucency effect. The image spans both the search and results pages (unlike Google). The images automatically resize depending on your resolution. The perks go on and on... if the big boys wish to be innovative then they need to look at the small fry which are generally better.