Google thinks black links are the new blue (CNET News)
Google thinks black links are the new blue (CNET News)
2016-05-10
if there's one thing that the Internet
has it's an opinion this time it was
google on the receiving end thanks to an
experiment that changed its famous blue
search links black a number of users
reported seeing black links appear when
they ran a search and boy were they
unhappy on Twitter they took to the
bring back the blue hash tag with users
like at swag two more saying what are
you playing at Google you crazy one even
thought that he'd somehow developed a
color blindness to glue this isn't the
first time Google has tested out a new
color scheme a few years ago changing
the shade of blue on gmail and search
ads method the company an extra two
hundred million dollars a year in
revenue so it's black the new blue we
may never know for sure a google
spokeswoman said we're always running
many small-scale experiments with the
design of the results page we're not
quite sure that black is the new blue
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