How to Enable Dark theme for Google Search

Google seems to be rolling out the Dark theme for Google Search on desktop or it may be another test before it could be broadly available to everyone. We got a hands-on feature and here is how you can turn the dark theme on or off in any web browser for Google Search results.

Google homepage with dark theme

Till now plenty of web services and apps add support dark mode. Chrome, Edge Chromium, Vivaldi, Firefox, Opera, Malwarebytes, and services such as ProtonMail, Gmail, and others can be said as examples and the list goes on, now Google Search is about to join them, but the feature isn’t available to all.

If a dark theme for Google search is available, you’ll receive notification beforehand on Google like shown above

Dark theme is now available turn on notification

Enable Dark Theme for Google Search on desktop

Visit Google homepage
Irrespective of whether you have signed into Google Account or not, click on Settings at the bottom
Select Search Settings
If the feature is available, you’ll receive notification beforehand on Google
In search results
Scroll down to Appearance with a message to “turn dark theme on or off” with the following options
Device default
Dark theme
Light theme
It’s no brainer that Google respects your device or Windows 10 theme and follows that by default, you need to select the second option in the above to reduce the eye strain and save energy consumption.