# New! Themes for your google homepage!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 14, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144 "2007-04-14T20:54:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/1 "2007-04-14T20:54:23Z")
Little things like this make me giddy. I’ve had a [Google Homepage](http://www.google.com/ig) for a while now, and yesterday they rolled out some themes to spice up the boring ol’ green and white. (look up in the top right corner, if you have one)
I love how this thing updates to whatever the weather is. Right now my little fox is bathing in the not-so-light and the sun’s right where it should be. Too cute!
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/2 "2007-04-14T21:22:38Z")
Those are more than a day old, I’ve been watching the weather at my bus stop for a week or two at least now. But they are pretty neat, I agree.
When it snows, there’s a little penguin on the bench, and when it rains, one of the people there is in a wet suit and flippers.
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### Author:  [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/3 "2007-04-15T04:52:49Z")
Cute! Now if only they could integrate Google News into the Google Homepage, I’d go back.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2007, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/4 "2007-04-15T10:17:06Z")
[QUOTE=Vision of Love]
Cute! Now if only they could integrate Google News into the Google Homepage, I’d go back.
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You can - look in the homepage content directory.
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### Author:  [@parsnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parsnip)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/5 "2007-04-15T12:21:03Z")
Why does my weather theme have a snowman in a yard of green grass?
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### Author:  [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/6 "2007-04-17T07:45:15Z")
[QUOTE=Struan]
You can - look in the homepage content directory.
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I was actually looking to have the content looking more like my [Google News](http://news.google.com) page but I am not getting such results. What I like from Google News is that it provides a headline with news links under it to different online periodicals, so I can choose which article I prefer to read.
Unless I am doing it wrong. 😕
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/7 "2007-04-17T10:49:32Z")
[QUOTE=Vision of Love]
I was actually looking to have the content looking more like my [Google News](http://news.google.com) page but I am not getting such results. What I like from Google News is that it provides a headline with news links under it to different online periodicals, so I can choose which article I prefer to read.
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Ah, right. The Google News plugin for the customised homepage isn’t as fully featured as that. It just provides one link per story.
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### Author:  [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/8 "2007-04-17T15:41:33Z")
Thanks, man! This is cool. I just updated mine.
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### Author:  [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/9 "2007-04-17T15:45:39Z")
It’s pretty! I have the beach theme now. I do love Google, despite the fact that it occasionally scares me.
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/10 "2007-04-17T16:27:22Z")
I also have the Fox themed page. What I think is cute is that we’re both eating lunch right now, and so is the frog on the other side of the page! It’s very squee.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2007, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-themes-for-your-google-homepage/400144/11 "2007-04-24T08:57:46Z")
They’re pretty, but despite trying a variety of local zip codes they do not “dynamically change” as promised–rather, they do, but not in logical relation to my time zone. Right this minute (1:57 AM) “beach” shows a mid-morning sun. If I restart one of them it gives me an accurate time analogue, but if I were to come back to Google later it would be off. Ideas?