{"id":3674,"date":"2026-02-17T22:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:12:28","slug":"google-ai-overviews-have-blue-links-before-click-amp-gray-after-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=3674","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Overviews Have Blue Links Before Click &amp;amp; Gray After Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-blue-gray-1771176338.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Blue Gray\" title=\"Google AI Overviews Have Blue Links Before Click &amp;amp; Gray After Click\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Did you know that the Google AI Overviews link citation paperclip icons are blue before you click to see more of the overviews and then after you click on them, that icon turns to a gray color.<\/p> <p>I would not have noticed this but Radu Oncescu posted about it on X and wrote, &#8220;Google has launched a new behaviour for Google AI Overviews results in which sources of unread paragraphs are marked with a light blue color and sources for read paragraphs are marked with a grey color.&#8221;<\/p> <p>I am able to replicate this, here is what it looks like side-by-side:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-overview-links-blue-to-gray-1771176389.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Overview Links Blue To Gray\" title=\"Google AI Overviews Have Blue Links Before Click &amp;amp; Gray After Click\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Here is his video of this in action:<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">More context.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rustybrick<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OBeHP5s35v\">pic.twitter.com\/OBeHP5s35v<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Radu Oncescu (@oncescuradu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oncescuradu\/status\/2022855752801493263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>#Google #Overviews #Blue #Links #Click #ampamp #Gray #Click1771337548<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the Google AI Overviews link citation paperclip icons are blue before you click to see more of the overviews and then after you click on them, that icon turns to a gray color. I would not have noticed this but Radu Oncescu posted about it on X and wrote, &#8220;Google has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[877,4528,7285,75,12534,1467,456],"class_list":["post-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-ampamp","tag-blue","tag-click","tag-google","tag-gray","tag-links","tag-overviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}