May 30, 2008

So… A new blue fav icon adorned my Firefox location bar this afternoon when I fired up my iGoogle homepage.

New Google Fav icon:

Old Google Fav icon:

Is Google redesigning their logo or was someone at Google just having a slow Friday?

Perhaps it’ll just change back on Monday and the world will never know!! No. No. Never. I refuse to believe it!

Maybe changing the Fav icon was just a little nugget of nothing for the blogging community to chew on and create buzz… simply a clever ruse…

EDIT: Apparently the new icon isn’t yet appearing on localized versions of Google, but this is normal of anything Google rolls out anyway.

3 Comments

cottonbuds January 9, 2009 at 8:29 pm

After ~7 months there’s a new favicon now http://www.google.co.uk/favicon.ico
Joan January 3, 2011 at 4:58 am

How do I get rid of the Google blue blob Fav Icon?????
My initial screen has too many Google search bars on it.
Why can’t we have the original G for Google back????
Justin Marty January 3, 2011 at 11:23 pm

1. You can’t… not without using Firefox and installing some kind of Grease Monkey script.
2. If you mean your browser has too many toolbars… stop installing them. Uninstall them from the Add/Remove programs tool in the Control Panel.
3. Because the BIG G said so.