Last week, reports claimed Google was testing mobile search results without favicons or colors, eliminating any advantage conferred by a well optimized favicon. However, a Google representative confirmed this was not a test. Favicons In Search Results The word favicon is short for “favorite icons,” an image meant to be shown in browser tabs, in … Read more
Favicons are those little icons you see in your browser tabs. When you have many open tabs in your browser, they help you recognize and find the page you were looking for. They are important for your branding because Google shows them in the mobile and desktop search results. So, let’s take a closer look … Read more
Google Search Central updated their favicon documentation to recommend higher-resolution images, exceeding the previous minimum standard. Be aware of the changes described below, as they may impact how your site appears in search results. Favicon A favicon is a custom icon that is shown in browser tabs, browser bookmarks, browser favorites and sometimes in the … Read more
Google’s John Mueller responded to a LinkedIn post about the visual impact of favicons in search results, sharing a tip that isn’t officially documented but could improve their visibility. Favicons Favicons are small icons that represent a website’s brand that are displayed in browser tabs, bookmarks, browser history and in search engine results pages (SERPs). … Read more
Google is testing larger sitenames and favicons again. You can see a considerably larger font used for the sitename (the link in the Google search result snippets) and a larger favicon being tested in the search results. Shameem Adhikarath spotted this change and posted about it on X – I was able to replicate the … Read more
Microsoft seems to have rolled out a new shape for the favicons in its Bing search results. Instead of being circles, now they seem to be square. Khushal Bherwani spotted Bing testing this earlier, and when I tried this on New Year’s Eve, all my browsers only returned the square design for these search result … Read more
Microsoft has added favicons to the links within Bing Chat / Copilot. Favicons should make the links beneath the AI-generated answer more clickable and noticeable to users. I personally now see the favicons on all my tests within Bing Chat, now known as Copilot. I am not sure if this is a limited test or … Read more
Google is testing shading and adding color and depth to favicons that they display in the search result snippets. This was spotted some time ago but it seems to be more broadly being tested now, including the shading experiment. Here is a screenshot from Chandan Kumar from a few days ago on X – notice … Read more
Microsoft is testing showing larger favicons in the Bing Search results. The favicons look a lot larger in this test, here are side by side comparisons so you can see yourself. Here is what I see, the normal smaller favicons: Here is what Khushal Bherwani posted on Twitter: Frank Sandtmann also noticed this and posted … Read more
June 6, 2019 | Posted by Shay Harel Strange days have found us! A plague of Google bugs has reached biblical proportions, the mobile SERP now contains favicons, & ads have hit the Discovery Feed! It’s been a peculiar month in what has been a peculiar year thus far on the Google … Read more
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