Google changes favicon
May 30, 2008 (early evening)
Google has changed their favicon (favorite icon) to a new design. For those of you not versed in web nerdery, I’m talking about the little icon to the left of the URL bar in your browser.
old favicon
new favicon
Historically, most sites only change favicon designs when launching a new look. This doesn’t seem to the be the case on google.com.
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I think I like the idea of it better than the execution. I mean I know they don’t have a lot of pixels to work with in a favicon but the letter form seems just not right.
The only thing I can think is that it’s meant to look like ∞ turned on it’s side (since ‘google’ is second biggest number most people can name).
That said I never understood with the old icon how they could overlook pixel by pixel editing…