Thursday, July 23, 2009

Google Prototype Hides Underlines

Google is testing a prototype in which the underlines are gone from links on result pages. When hovering over a link, the underline will show, though.

To try this for yourself, copy & paste the following into the address bar when at google.com, then do a google.com web search:

javascript:document.cookie="PREF=ID=91128643b87556fe:U=e2fd0db6f007b83e:FF=4:LD=en:NR=10:CR=2:TM=1242557689:LM=1244057361:GM=1:S=5c99SmHNmpJf3ynd;path=/;domain=.google.com"

With prototypes like these, Google may want to collect usage data – like (as a guess) to check how long people scan the results before clicking a particular link. Sometimes, prototypes are rolled out for all later on, and sometimes they won't see the light of day.

[Thanks PhilipB for spotting this!]

Google Prototype Hides Un ... by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (17)

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