How to disable Google's doodle

Question

I am at work, and wanted to Google something, but then I saw the Halloween Doodle (and I played with it). Now I have no idea what I was searching for.

How to disable Google's doodle, to stop it from slowing down my productivity.

Answer 1

There's no official way to disable it. Here are some options:

• Disable JavaScript in your browser. This will however heavily influence the functionality of all web applications.

• Go to google.com/firefox instead. It just gives you a different start page, but the results will be the same.

• Click Change Background Image in the bottom left and set any image you like. You could even upload a simple white image to your Picasa account and use that.

Answer 2

I don't know what Google are thinking - here's how I solved it in Firefox, with the Adblocker add-on.

Go to the Adblock pulldown and select 'Filter Preferences'. Select 'Ad blocking rules' in the left box. On the right click 'Add filter' and input http://www.google.com/logos/*

Alternatively use: https://duckduckgo.com/

Answer 3

Google is the default web search engine in both Firefox and Chrome, which means that you do not need to visit google.com to search.

Just type whatever you want to search for in the address bar and press enter. If whatever you have entered doesn't matched the format of a wesite/webpage, it would take you to the Google Search result page of the text.