Comments on: Google Changes It’s Favicon

By: Robert Kingston

Robert Kingston — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:55:38 +0000

Hey Nikolah,

Sucks to hear about your Google slap. I got slapped as well - from a PR 4 to PR 3. There’s no telling what will happen to my PR next update, as I’ve made the move to my new domain name…

PS. Your FLV player got me back into watching my old Stompernet vids.

By: Nikola Dachev

Nikola Dachev — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:51:27 +0000

Big “G” became small “g”. I don’t like it. the new icon is not as standing out as the old one and with multiple tabs it is worse this way.

By: qaswer

qaswer — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:04:30 +0000

It has happened many days ago but I don’t like their new favicon.

By: Robert Kingston

Robert Kingston — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:07:55 +0000

I’d say so - I guess it depends on what sort of transparency they’re using. Is it additive, blending or something else?

I wonder if they’ll switch the rest over. I mean they can’t really have two different Favicons for too long - that will confuse users about the Google brand.

By: Stefen

Stefen — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:43:28 +0000

They change the icon’s background blend with the background. In address bar it is white.

If we change setting of our desktop appearance I wonder is the background is still transparent.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:26:05 +0000

Cheers. I have to admit, I didn’t like the new favicon at first but after staring at it for a while it’s really grown on me. I like the transparency in the icon - classy.

By: Peter Laurent

Peter Laurent — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:55:20 +0000

I noticed this a few days ago on by searches, your brand related observations are extremely good. It definitely stands out in my mozilla browser as well.