Google Changed its Favicon
By rubeina
I did not notice the change until I felt completely lost while searching on google this evening, I am one of those who opens a lot of tabs (by a lot I mean 20+). Favicon is a good way to know what sites I have opened but today I was confused when I saw that weird “g”
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I am sure most googlers have already noticed it, seriously I preferred the previous one better how about you? Also Google is known as “The Big G” now with a small “g” as favicon… hmm it does not really match 










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I did noticed it. I feel that it lacks something. Its background needs some work to be done with it.
It’s not even blue like the small “g” in Google, is it all colors in google mixed together to give this color? hmm. It lacks everything imo, I still vote “does not match”
lol, i was going to blog about it “google is gay” now…
seriously when i was doing shopping with my freind today, that “g” stuck in my mind after saw some signboards
I haven’t read about the change at any google blogs, wonder why they tried to change like it’s no big deal. haha
its ugly and not well designed
Agreed
Is it back to normal already?
Coz it still shows the old G for me…
I was going to post “Clear your cache” but saw your update below
I thought I got phished by a imitation Google hacker site when I first saw it
It is bothering me so much, I will call the owner and complain! 
We are all with you on this one, let’s all contact google and say we don’t like it
Yep, noticed the change on the Webmaster Tools… it sucks! (blatantly stands out on FF3!!!)
Bad Google…
I wouldn’t be surprised if they brought back the old one once they see the feedback…
They are probably trying to change some rules, like not sticking with the same thing for years who knows. But still that new favicon doesn’t stand out, I wonder what google is trying to do
Same here, I also prefer the old one
Yes it’s indeed i saw the change on webmaster tools and analytics…
Thought they didn’t mention it anywhere, i may think it looks a bit weird because, this logo is not visible anywhere on google websites. Thus this odd feeling against the logo… imagine it to be seem everywhere on google site, then it wouldn’t look the same, i may thinks…
Yeek, Looks ugly, Hope it is temporary for more 1 month, It doesnt match at all and is really not relevant….
yes.. it doesn’t look good, maybe they should learn from you Rou…
Not just Google, but now Yahoo also has changed its logo.
http://www.thewwwblog.com/yahoo-logo-changes.html
Both did it not in a professional manner!
rubeina and yusrinah… I havent see yusrinah this day and I havent see her updating her blog… well anyway nice to know you…
anyway, I still prefer the old big G logo
technically it does not affecting so it’s not valid to discuss in this stupid topic
we have to take look on google’s algorithms not it’s favicon
hehehe..i too seen it in the middle of searching
Big G was far better than this newer one! but we’ll be used to it soon!
You should know that the same way Rubeina account was hijacked, Google hijacked (or shourd I say stole?) its the new favicon from the well designed http://www.guardian.co.uk