Google Search Tests Lighter Purple Color For Clicked On Search Results

Apr 29, 2022 - 7:21 am 1 by
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Google Search is testing a lighter colored purple for the links you have clicked on and visited in the search results. This report came from both Mordy Obserstein and Khushal Bherwani and I can replicate it myself in different browsers.

The difference is subtle, so here are two screenshots so you can compare them side by side:

Old - darker purple:

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New - lighter purple:

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Here are the screenshots from those tweets:

How will this impact any of you? I have no idea...

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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