For those of you who don’t know what a favicon (Favorites icon) is, look at the left end of your browser’s adressbar and you should see a Windows flag. That’s my favicon. Most self-respecting blogs and sites have their own custom favicon, to help users locate the site on their favorites list or anywhere else on the web.

As you might already have noticed, Google has changed its favicon a few days ago. It used to be a blue, uppercase “G” in a blue-green-red box, but now it’s a lowercase purple “g”. Here’s the link to it: http://www.google.com/favicon.ico

I definitely liked the old one more, but I guess we’ll get used to the change..

As googlesystem.blogspot.com pointed out, the new one is also more relevant to google.

EDIT: Just 5 minutes after posting this, I was checking the links on my site and guess what.. Google had changed its favicon back to the old one!! A few minutes later, it was gone again. This also appeared on google.co.uk.

Looks like they are having some trouble deciding which icon to keep.

This was around 11.05 GMT today, please leave a comment if you noticed the same thing.