Sergey Alakov spotted the test with dual colors.
Here is what it looks like:
With the black variation, it doesn’t make it as obvious for a searcher that those sitelinks are clickable, especially with the fact they are blue in a search result above it.
We have seen Google testing an entirely black version of the mobile search results recently too. But again in that test, all the links are black, not this mix and match test we see here.
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