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Did Google Just Get a New Favicon?

Posted by Frederic On January - 9 - 2009

Not much of a news story, but I just noticed a different favicon for Google in my browser. Is this new?

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28 Comments

  1. Brownie Levine says:

    I just noticed the same thing. IDK if I like it or not. At least it's better then that plain lower-case “g” that was supposed to represent infinity. They changed that one back in May of last year.

  2. wullon says:

    Just noticed it to !

  3. wullon says:

    Just noticed it to !

  4. Oleh says:

    It's new favicon.

  5. Oleh says:

    It's new favicon.

  6. somegirl says:

    i just noticed it too.
    but yeah, they just rolled it out. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-...

  7. yes that new favicon

  8. John says:

    it was released after google also updated it own pagerank algo.

  9. Yes Google uses new favicon but only in Google.com but not in regional google, they still use default favicon

  10. Maybe Google want to give something new for their fans, when other company make big improve, Google give something litle but can make big change and iam sure thousand blogger already talk about this now.

  11. i notice it too. At first i thought that favicon is about land because the color of red, yellow and green. However,i can only notice the word of G when i look the white color of the favicon.

  12. I know whats next,Yahoo and MSN will follow suit. Does it really make much of a difference?

  13. jamie says:

    Awesome post

  14. jamie says:

    Awesome post

  15. i like that favicon actually, it look unique but hard to read the word of G in between.

  16. PJ says:

    And it looks disgusting, an incomprehensible blob. There should be a way to block that damn thing.

  17. PJ says:

    And it looks disgusting, an incomprehensible blob. There should be a way to block that damn thing.

  18. It's good to change!Although it's small, it still makes a difference.

  19. ??? says:

    And it looks disgusting, an incomprehensible blob. There should be a way to block that damn thing.

  20. Ушу says:

    And it looks disgusting, an incomprehensible blob. There should be a way to block that damn thing.

  21. donnie says:

    It's a pretty cool little icon…it took me a while to notice. Its sort of like the chrome logo.

  22. donnie says:

    It's a pretty cool little icon…it took me a while to notice. Its sort of like the chrome logo.

  23. Frankly I hate it. The old one was so much better. Now it looks like every other favicon in my bookmarks – a lot of colors, not much of content (if you can talk about content in context of favicon).

  24. Frankly I hate it. The old one was so much better. Now it looks like every other favicon in my bookmarks – a lot of colors, not much of content (if you can talk about content in context of favicon).

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  1. [...] Reports are lighting up the web that Google has a new favicon. I just reloaded my iGoogle homepage, and sure enough, there it is. Gone is the boring silver and blue “g,” now we get a more colorful “g.” [...]

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