Google Testing Black Links Instead Of Blue In Search Results

[HardOCP News]

Other than thoroughly confusing people, I don't know why Google would want to change its search links from blue to black. Why not remove the underline while you are at it so you can't tell it's a link at all?

Still, blue web links have been a feature within Google Search for a long time. So it comes as something of a minor shock to see that the company is now testing a new color: black. From all evidence we’ve been reading so far, it seems this is just an A/B test Google is performing on the back end. That means not everyone is going to see it, and even those who do won’t see it every time they hit Google up.

 

[Nukester]

You should have made the link in the article black

 

[pendragon1]

not black. there isn't enough of a difference between blue and black. maybe red so it stands out really well. red like "STOP! you already clicked that link".

 

[Gigus Fire]

Who knows, google might get beat up over their black and blue links.

 

[the-one1]

Why black? All the other colors are just as important. All Colors Matters!

 

[otherweeb]

It ain't broke!

 

[amddragonpc]

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight ...

 

[mynamehere]

Who knows, google might get beat up over their black and blue links.

I see what you did there.

 

[DPI]

One thing's for sure: If Google does make it permanent, you can be sure Bing will copy it and do the same about 1ms later.

 

[rigurat]

But blue links have been the defacto color of hyperlinks since the early days of the modern (around 1995) internet.

 

[deton8]

The only thing I see coming of this is a lot of page backgrounds having to be changed.

 

[necrophobic]

We did a migration from Novell file servers to a NAS years ago and it changed some of the file names from black text to blue text as some files were then being compressed. We got loads of tickets about the change of the color of the file name text. Prepare for armageddon.