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Stephen Tordoff [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, May 8, 2008
16 years ago4,266 views

Anyone else seeing this? The facicon for the main Google page for me is now a blue star within a blue border.

Screenshot will be added at some point, having problems with file upload at the moment.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Clear your browser's cache.

Stephen Tordoff [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

First thing I did, and just done again. I can see it on both my PC and my laptop (One IE and one Firefox)

Stephen Tordoff [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Sorry about this being over-cropped. Anything larger than this is timing-out.

http://img.techpowerup.org/080508/googleStar2.png

Zim [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

From what part of the world is your connection? Is there anyone near who is seeing that?

beussery [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

view source, do a find for .ico and post the URL if you still see this...

Stephen Tordoff [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Seeing this from the UK, not spoke to anyone else about it.

I'll try to get the URL

Stephen Tordoff [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Can't seem to the find the .ico listed anywhere in the source.

Seems to be returning to normal, one PC now shows the 'correct' icon

Motti [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Stephen Tordoff: Favicons don't need to be mentioned in the source, if it's not in the HTML the browser looks at www.site.com/favicon.ico. Presumably, Google do it this way to shave a few bytes.

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