browsers simply give your pages white backgrounds if you don't override that default. Add a short CSS class to an HTML Web page to use animated and stationary GIF images as the page's background.

John Mueller said on Twitter "last I checked, we don't use CSS background images for image search." John said this also back in January 2018 when he said Google Image search does not index and ...

I added to the end of my line: background-repeat: no-repeat; and also noticed that my layout table is 1029X something so I changed it to 1029X768 and the repeated image is now gone.

Google's John Mueller said this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 20:55 mark that Google Image search does not index and rank images from CSS background code. He said if you want your images ...