Did Google just changed its favicon?

I’ve just real­ized that Google changed it’s fav­i­con from cap­i­tal G to small g. For those of you who do not know what a fav­i­con is, it is that small 16 by 16 pix­els icon you some­times see beside the address bar. I guess that’s prob­a­bly one of the minor changes that I’ve ever seen hap­pen­ing on the Google homepage.

Nonethe­less, it does appear that some­one spot­ted it as well. Kudos to all who man­aged to spot the change.

I still can’t get accus­tomed to the new icon. Maybe I’ve been using Google for a very long time and even a small icon change makes me feel a lit­tle uncom­fort­able. Hope­fully I could get accus­tomed to it sooner or later. Hon­estly, while the new icon looks pretty sleek, the shadow (or gra­di­ent?) behind the “g” makes it look ack­ward. I guess that’s because I’m using IE7 and that the icon appear to be semi-transparent. On Fire­fox, the icon looks great.

*Note: In order to view the new fav­i­con, you can short­cut the caching process by sim­ply access­ing the fav­i­con directly (i.e. google.com/favicon.ico) and refresh­ing it. Tada, the new Google icon!

Let’s hope Google won’t be turn­ing low­er­case any­time soon, oth­er­wise it’ll look pretty odd.

Tagged as: Google, Update