Last week Google announced a new feature by letting users to add a favorite photo or image to the background of the Google homepage like the one below.

Unfortunately this confused users and as a result Google stopped this feature and posted an update in the blog.

Update June 10, 11:31AM: Last week, we launched the ability to set an image of users’ choosing as the background for the Google homepage. Today, we ran a special “doodle” that showcased this functionality by featuring a series of images as the background for our homepage. We had planned to run an explanation of the showcase alongside it—in the form of a link on our homepage. Due to a bug, the explanatory link did not appear for most users. As a result, many people thought we had permanently changed our homepage, so we decided to stop today’s series early. We appreciate your feedback and patience as we experiment and iterate.

Google Trends, showed a spike for the term “remove google background” searches: