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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
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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
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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?
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i see... the results page.
the green text would be the only thing common that's not a web/browser standard.
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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.
