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How did all the search engines get to blue-black-green? - Marcello Santos - 07-16-2010
Have you noticed this? I just did a search on Google, Bing, Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, Ask, Webcrawler (did't think some of the latter ones still existed!)
The same identical color scheme? Who was first? Is there no shame?
The link to the site: blue underline
The snippets of text from the site: black
The actual URL: green
Re: How did all the search engines get to blue-black-green? - Doc - 07-16-2010
http://www.scriptingmaster.com/html/changing-link-colors.asp
Re: How did all the search engines get to blue-black-green? - freeradical - 07-16-2010
It's the fake links that I find funny - the double lines that are nothing more than advertising.
You'd think that they would have gone away by now since everyone knows what they are.
Even the articles at Low End mac still have them.
Silly
Re: How did all the search engines get to blue-black-green? - Marcello Santos - 07-16-2010
I don't mean how did they do it, markup/code wise. I mean, how is it that they all chose the same color palette? Is it giving google too much credit to think they had it like that first, then it became the "language" of search results?
Re: How did all the search engines get to blue-black-green? - Doc - 07-16-2010
Marcello Santos wrote:
I don't mean how did they do it, markup/code wise. I mean, how is it that they all chose the same color palette?
They didn't.
Your web browser did.
Re: How did all the search engines get to blue-black-green? - decay - 07-16-2010
like this setting in Firefox?
Re: How did all the search engines get to blue-black-green? - decay - 07-16-2010
i see... the results page.
the green text would be the only thing common that's not a web/browser standard.
Re: How did all the search engines get to blue-black-green? - Seacrest - 07-16-2010
Blue was the default link color way back in the beginning of Netscape, etc.
Green is very high contrast.
Black is ... black (I want my baby back).
You need to remember that in the Internet's infancy, many monitors could only display 256 colors.
Some UI experts probably determined that those three colors work best in that context, and the pattern stuck as a convention to this day.
Also, they all copy from each other.
I don't think Google was the first to do it that way.
Inktomi, altavista, HotWired or any other number of sites before them might have done it.