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Is Google using depressing CSS with IE?
I'm not a conspiracy theorist (don't you love posts that begin like that!), but today I noticed an unmistakable difference between the Google search results between the major browsers. It wasn't like this yesterday.
See http://i.imgur.com/kSR2omq.png
Results in IE only appear a washed out, less saturated, and grey (especially when you see a full page of results). I have a very hard time believing Google would try to psychologically manipulate people like this, so what else could be reason for the difference?
Very interested in theories :)
- marco-fiset 13y agoIMHO, this is barely noticeable and one must be a very fragile person to be psycologically manipulated by a darker shade of text color.
- DougN7 13y agoIt's quite noticeable on a page full of results. I'm finding it irritating because the contrast is lower.
- ifrins 13y agoI don't think this is just directed to IE users, they are probably doing their routinary A/B tests. I've also seen this darker color scheme in the past weeks even though I wasn't using neither Windows nor IE, it was Chrome.
- Hrundi 13y agoThis comes from a company that puts #FFF7ED as a background color on the SERP ads so that people with flat screens will not see it from certain angles and believe they are search results. They most certainly possess the capability of doing a lot of A/B testing due to their immense volume, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it an attempt to psychologically manipulate people.
- yuhong 13y agoI know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6055862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6055862
- captainmuon 13y agoMaybe a color management issue in IE 10?
- taf2 13y agoright - has anyone actually just looked at the color hex values in css to confirm whether google is presenting a different color? [update]: yeah the colors are identical - check your color settings color: #12c # IE10 color: #12c # chrome 28
- 83a 13y agoplease create a second triple of screenshots with a blank page showing two divs with background #093 and #12c. perhaps it's a color managment problem on client side.
- DougN7 13y agoUPDATE: 6 hours later (and clearing cookies) and the Google search results are now showing the same color in IE as Chrome. A/B testing seems like the best guess...