Google changes look with new favicon browser icon

By Michelle Ruhfass • June 9, 2008

Some of you may have noticed that Google has changed its favicon from a large “G” to a small, lower case ‘g’ recently. If you haven’t noticed just take a look up in the URL portion of your web browser. For those that need a definition of a favicon, it is a small image that is used to reflect the identity of a web site that shows up in bookmarks and other places in a web browser.

According to Google, the change was “rigorous and interesting” and “much harder than we thought”. The company wanted a better icon that could be scaled to a variety of platforms like mobile phones and devices and came up with over 300 permutations in doing so. Google has stated that this is a work in progress and may not be their final favicon. For anyone creative, Google is allowing users to submit favicon ideas to be considered.

For those wanting to revert to the old Google favicon, go here.

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