{"id":5634,"date":"2026-04-01T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:31:30","slug":"is-google-ditching-blue-background-for-ai-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=5634","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Ditching Blue Background For AI Citations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-robot-mirror-1754227118.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Robot Mirror\" title=\"Is Google Ditching Blue Background For AI Citations?\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Shockwaves were sent through the SEO industry as a new test spotted AI Overview citations with a white background, not a blue one. <\/p> <p>Spotted by Sachin Patel on X, the citations still appear to the right of the results, but in his example are on a non-shaded background. Here are some of his screenshots:<\/p> <p>White:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-overviews-white-background-1774789000.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Overviews White Background\" title=\"Is Google Ditching Blue Background For AI Citations?\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Blue:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-overviews-blue-background-1774789000.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Overviews Blue Background\" title=\"Is Google Ditching Blue Background For AI Citations?\u63d2\u56fe2\" \/><\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Google is changing the color design of the AI Overview link cards. Previously, they had a blue background; now they appear with a white background <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brodieseo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@brodieseo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rustybrick<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gaganghotra_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gaganghotra_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Z3y9U1gGT\">pic.twitter.com\/6Z3y9U1gGT<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Sachin Patel (@SachuPatel53124) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SachuPatel53124\/status\/2037429550121116013?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <p>I still see the shady AI Overviews personally: <\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/truck-ai-overview--1774784116.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Truck Ai Overview \" title=\"Is Google Ditching Blue Background For AI Citations?\u63d2\u56fe3\" \/><\/p> <p>&#13;<br \/> I personally like the blue shade, it makes the citations feel more noticeable, so I can then not click on them. <\/p> <p>Glenn Gabe and Brodie Clark also spotted these:<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Oh, and the new formatting being tested for citations is also present in AI Mode. Again, the links definitely pop more&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7P8mLXxVJ2\">pic.twitter.com\/7P8mLXxVJ2<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glenngabe\/status\/2037605219194802264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Google is now testing out white citation cards within AI overviews instead of the standard blue cards on desktop. <\/p> <p>The change now draws more attention toward the in-answer bubble links that rolled out last month, which remain in blue with this experiment. <\/p> <p>This was first\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kbPuHTvylP\">pic.twitter.com\/kbPuHTvylP<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 SERP Alert \u26a1\ufe0f (@SERPalerts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SERPalerts\/status\/2038206904640631145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Here is another:<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustybrick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rustybrick<\/a> did you see the Ai overview card became small? Is it new? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RfHLNK38mr\">pic.twitter.com\/RfHLNK38mr<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 ylsSEO (@seoyls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seoyls\/status\/2037498027393573260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Forum discussion over in the shade.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>#Google #Ditching #Blue #Background #Citations1775017890<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shockwaves were sent through the SEO industry as a new test spotted AI Overview citations with a white background, not a blue one. Spotted by Sachin Patel on X, the citations still appear to the right of the results, but in his example are on a non-shaded background. Here are some of his screenshots: White: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21033,4528,10352,21032,75],"class_list":["post-5634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-background","tag-blue","tag-citations","tag-ditching","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634","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=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}