Google Web Search - dark blue redesign (vC)

Google Web Search - dark blue redesign (vC)
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By Valacar
Last updated Mar 27 2008
652 installs this week, 40724 total.

Dark blue color scheme for Google's web search page (classic version only). A dark gray version is available as well: Google Web Search - dark gray redesign (vC)

Note: This style only works for google.com. To make it work for other countries, use a plain text editor to search for "google.com" and replace all occurrences with "google.co.uk" or whatever you use.

More of my google styles:
- Google Web Search - dark gray redesign (vC)
- Google Web Search - gray logo replacement (vC)
- Google Image Search - dark gray redesign (vC)
- Google Video - dark gray redesign (vC)

Feel free to visit my userstyle site at http://www.valacar.com/userstyles/

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v1ncent said on Jun 04 2008

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5153/screenshot3cr3.png
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7915/screenshot5io9.png
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It's not working, there is bad syntax.
And WHY there is part of the code of this page in the style????? even my comments???? *

satanas said on Jun 02 2008

hallo, first bite, than quest

Rommels said on Apr 08 2008

I'm switching from your dark gray to this one, it is much nicer.
I'm gonna work on making all the google pages match now... *****

ikaira said on Apr 07 2008

why i don't see load style button? i like this but i don't know to use it.user guide, can't find anywere.plz help
ok,it was turned off java script

N. said on Apr 01 2008

I like the style, very relaxing and the colors are great.
I did have some problems getting it work well with the experimental google search for different views. I made some minor modifications.

First I added the views google page to the url-prefix array, I added this under the url that ends with custom?:
url-prefix(http://www.google.com/view?)

Then I added the modification to the selection buttons to get them working, as shown below:

/* Experimental Search - Views */
/* make selection buttons more visable */
table.vb td.buttonText {
background: #405882 !important;
}
/* make the selected search type more distinct */
table.vbSelected td.buttonText {
background: #405882 !important;
color: #DACA7D !important;
}

Thank you again for a great style! *****

onolox said on Mar 28 2008

I use google.com.br, stylish REALLY NEED WILDCARDS!

I suggestion, the links need to be more different in a non clicked link and a clicked link, simpli make it darker are not a good thing, usability over visual. ****

jonnny said on Mar 12 2008

I've really enjoyed this style for a long time.

Unfortunately, Google's SPONSORED LINKS just started showing up on pages that match products. (i.e. type in "razor" or "car" or "hotel")

If you can think of any way to fix it - that would be great!
If you can't, you're still great! thanks.. *****

Ronnen said on Mar 06 2008

The Style is amazing, all of (vC) work is just ART !!
Now, since Google changing their site all the time,
(now I get results from www.l.google.com and the Style doesn't work anymore)
maybe Its time to adjust the Style to Yahoo! Search.
Yahoo! Search could be a good alternative while Google making life 'harder' for us,
and changing all the time their website.
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lockheed said on Jan 03 2008

doesn't work! help me!!! *

rio said on Jan 02 2008

conflicting with http://userstyles.org/styles/655; or how to fix the color issue? ***

majoros said on Dec 21 2007

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PeCet said on Nov 22 2007

Something broked see: http://i7.tinypic.com/6xacya9.png
edit: Ok, it's weird, but now (after few days) working ok *****

PhiloHippus said on Nov 07 2007

Looks nice, congratulations. Do you plan on making it compatible with Google experimental search? (http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html)

Cheers *****

shadowsnipes said on Oct 25 2007

Looks great! Now my eyes won't hurt from all the white! My only complaint is that the text in my SiteAdvisor popups were also white. I simply added a couple of style rules to this style and it fixed it (see the discussion I posted at http://userstyles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=616&page=1#Item_1).

thanks again! ****

Opethian said on Oct 18 2007

anybody else with a problem in google suggest?any fixes? ****

fusion6108 said on Jun 07 2007

i like this *

1212jtraceur said on Jun 07 2007

Much better than the default! I agree with Theory, you should make this for more Google services. *****

Theory said on May 29 2007

I love it! It just needs to work for more of Google's services, then it gets a five. :-) ****

CrimsonS said on Apr 20 2007

The style is great, helps the eyes a lot :). I fixed up the Googlepedia dark fixer to make it fit better with this style : Googlepedia Dark Blue fixer. *****

viktor said on Apr 18 2007

black ***

jdgamella said on Feb 26 2007

Great style! thank you very much, perhaps could be a good idea to design also the style of the google news, I use them as homepage, and it would be nice to use this style there. Could you try it? thanks a lot *****

netMASA said on Feb 11 2007

Works great, but makes googlepedia break. You might wanna add this Googlepedia dark fixer to yours. ****

KALMANI said on Jan 22 2007

I also would like a dark grey redesign for this style thanx...ntw, I like what you've done. *****

soren121 said on Jan 20 2007

Awesome! Could you make a dark grey redesign also, to match Google Images and Video? ****

soper20088 said on Dec 31 2006

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JuanBR said on Dec 29 2006

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omid said on Dec 26 2006

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kbreyette said on Dec 14 2006

Wonderful Style, very nice!

Darth_Cookies said on Dec 12 2006

Ok, un-installed Stylish and installed it again. It's back to normal, except the gray google video thing, it still doesn't work :P
EDIT: Oh, the gray does work, just not on the main Google video page...

All Your Base said on Dec 11 2006

WONDERFUL! *****

billybob said on Dec 09 2006

very nice but I don't get the google logo for Google.ie

Pic: http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitledll1.jpg *****

PsychoApeMan said on Nov 26 2006

This is fantastic, it looks great. I really hope you're working on a similar one for google personalised home, 'cause the blandness is driving me crazy now I'm used to your dark blue version. *****

rd001 said on Nov 24 2006

Very nice. I was sick of vanilla Google. *****

Bo Svenson said on Nov 21 2006

Great style - looks fantastic!

One suggested addition - if you are using the black box search plugin for Greasemonkey (routes all your Google searches through an anonymous proxy), add the following URL to each of the lists of @-moz-document url sections:
url-prefix(http://www.blackboxsearch.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi)

Otherwise the search results default back to the regular Google look.

JW_Pootsworth_III said on Nov 20 2006

Everytime I load one of your styles into Stylish, when I try to save I get and error message "TypeError: stylesheet has no properties"

m&m_limited said on Nov 20 2006

Very nice & comfortable - A pity only Google's Web search is handled. *****

Darhazer said on Nov 20 2006

Here is modified version to work with google.bg. Basicly you should only change the domain names, but in bulgarian version the logo image was set as background for a div tag and called logo_plain.jpg, so I add one more rewrite rule. It have a bug - the "Bulgaria" caption is too far from the logo, so if somebody can fix the position or just hide it, please post the fixed code

http://it-light.net/Darhazer/google.bg.css *****

tyler lee said on Nov 19 2006

would love this for personalized home.

Kwan said on Nov 19 2006

Great style *****

jw25 said on Nov 16 2006

Great look. I'd like to have this one for image search, too. *****

troubled said on Nov 15 2006

Ever thought of making personalized home? *****

steppres said on Nov 15 2006

Fall in love with Google and Firefox all over again! This is one userstyle you can't be without. Outstanding work by Valacar, as always. *****

Elena said on Oct 19 2006

@Valacar

Respect, thank you for sharing with us. I appreciate your time and effort! 5 points from Switzerland! ;)
Please Valacar, how do I must change the script for WWW.GOOGLE.CH, .ch Top Level Domain for Switzerland?
Thank you in advance for the answer!

So long

Elena *****

pile0nades said on Oct 14 2006

Beautiful! You should make one for Gmail, I would love that! *****

mobius said on Oct 12 2006

Great job! The only problem is that the Google banner images don't adapt to the blue background. They are still white. I did a straight copy from your code, so I don't think I messed up, but it's possible. Here are some screenshots to let you see what I am talking about:

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/daedalus42/google01.png
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g223/daedalus42/google02.png *****

GeorgeMoney said on Sep 01 2006

Yes, very nice! Good job! *****

Lazy said on Aug 23 2006

Much easier on the eyes. *****

Lore said on Aug 22 2006

google never looked better! the other styles for image/video search are awesome too! I am not sure which i like better the blue or black but I think you should offer both styles for each! I am already dreaming about Dark Gmail! :D *****