I was watching TV a few minutes ago while perusing the web and noticed something different in Google. It took me a while to figure out what it was. I actually had to open up some saved screenshots of Google results to figure it out. The results page looked cleaner but I couldn’t pinpoint it.

Turns out the culprit was that Google had removed the underline from the links in the search results page. The underline was gone for all listings — paid and organic.

Here’s a screenshot of the results I saw this evening:

And the same SERP from September 26, 2013:

Here’s another example of the naked-looking blue links:

And here’s one more with some local results included.

Could just be a glitch, though it appears Google has tested removing the underline formatting before.

Is anybody else seeing this?