Yahoo Testing Gray URLs In Search Results

Aug 10, 2015 - 7:54 am 0 by

Gray Spotlight Wide Yahoo

Yahoo is testing a new user interface for their search results, this new test shows gray URLs as opposed to the typical green URLs.

Aaron Wall spotted this and posted it on Twitter. Here is an example of the green versus gray URLs:

Gray Test:

Yahoo Testing Gray URLs

Green:

Yahoo Green URLs

Here is a full size screen shot from Aaron:

click for full size

Yahoo is constantly testing UIs these days, so don't expect this to stick.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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