Google testing new search UI

I did a Google search this morning, and I seem to have stumbled into an A/B test that I very much dislike.

Corbin Davenport at Android Police:

The new design removes the blue link color, as well as the green color for page categories/directories. Google tried something similar last year on the desktop, and people weren't happy about it then either.

Blue for links and purple for visited links dates back to the earliest days of the web. Many sites today override those colors, but search is very much the public directory to the Internet. It should follow some basic conventions. All black, I think, is objectively worse for usability.