Yahoo is testing their search results with the Yahoo purple links for all the titles on the page instead of the traditional blue links.

Aaron Wall spotted this test on Sunday where all the title links for both ads and organic search results were all in Yahoo purple.  We have seen some ads with a purple title, but never with all the titles on the entire Yahoo search results before.

One downside to this is that purple is often the color used by browsers to show when a link has been previously visited before.  With this being such a web standard, the purple here could definitely confuse some web searchers who are used to seeing purple denoting a page they’ve been to.

It does make the search results pop a bit more, though, which is likely why we have seen Yahoo using it for their ads before.  So more noticeable, but again, only for those who aren’t confused by the color being similar to the previously visited link color.

It does seem to be a limited test at this time, however if they perform well, we could see Yahoo change to this color scheme for more users or permanently.