According to a new report by 9to5Google, Google is A/B testing out the dark mode for the Search on desktop. Apparently, this would bring the native dark grey theme for desktop search.
Night mode or Dark mode is pervasive on Android and iOS. Most of the apps are now including this feature to provide comfort to the eyes of the users during extended usage.
With this A/B testing of dark mode for Google Search on desktop, when you make a search the results will be displayed in the dark grey background instead of the usual white background.
This dark grey color is similar to what you may already have with Google’s first-party apps. Moreover, the Google logo turns white instead of being multi-colored.
The microphone icon remains unchanged, while the grey outline of the search bar is reversed. The colorful icons of various filters (All, Images, News, etc.) will now turn blue paired with the tab accent color.
Google added a flag to “Show darkened search pages on Android,” back in May. And now it seems like this feature is now being extended for Google Search desktop.
The dark mode shows black text as gray, with different shades of blue for page names/links
The Google Search dark mode for the web shows black texts as gray. Besides, the blue color used to show names/links, etc. now has different shades of blue color to highlight the content.
Google has already pushed dark mode for almost all of its apps. And it now seems to bring a similar dark mode experience for web users as well.
Google Search joins the list of webpages from Google that features dark mode. Some other Google webpages that support dark theme are YouTube, YouTube TV, YouTube Music, and Google Keep.
This Google Search dark mode testing is currently limited to a small number of users. Meaning that only a handful of users have been encountering this change. Google has not officially provided any further details on the test.
The test is not widely available for Google Search users on the web. The present dark mode on Google Search simply changes the color of the user elements and works with Windows 10 on both Chrome and Firefox.
Earlier this year, Google had rolled out dark mode for its Smart Displays as part of a new experience. Since the A/B testing has already begun, we hope that Google will push this new dark mode feature to all web users.