This one is pretty easy, actually, though I don't really know why Google has succumbed to doing something that's such an obvious rip-off of a competitor. I mean, does Google do this in other areas? Not that I can think of, but with its search page, the core of its entire business, now we have a Bing-like clone!

Yeah, I'm guessing you don't really care.

Instead, you just want to know how to make this tweak, right?

I thought so!

Okay, so here's how ya do it. Go to the Google home page and wiggle your cursor around until all the text and options show up:

See on the bottom left corner where it ingeniously says "Change background image"? Click on it...

As you can see, there are a ton of different images, including those you can grab from your own computer, those from your Picasa album (Picasa is Google's photo album management system), or even from a large set of photos that are already available.

Click on one and next time you're at the Google home page, well, check it out:

Pretty darn nice, actually. Take that, Bing!