Google changes favicon again – much nicer than the lowercase purple g

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It seems like only yesterday that Google shifted its favicon from an uppercase G to a purple lowercase g. Well, although the little purple g is still in place, on my computer at least, at the moment, a post on the Official Google Blog suggests that it’s about to change again, to the icon over to the right.

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The new icon is a reinterpretation of a submission sent in by a user, one André Resende – a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil. The lucky chap, along with the rest of us, get to see a modified version of his creation (left) twenty thousand times a day as we destroy the planet. What do you think of the new logo? I’m quite a fan…

Official Google Blog

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Google changes its favicon from uppercase white 'G' to lowercase purple 'G' – thoughts?

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Soooo…has anyone noticed Google is wearing some new clothes today? That’s right, they’ve changed their favicon, that little ‘G’ logo which appears on tabs and at the beginning of the URL in the address bar.

The change happened earlier today, however I haven’t seen many people commenting on it – what do you think about the change from the big, official ‘G’, to the more fluid, purple lowercase ‘g’? Does it suit Google’s image more?

I have to say, I don’t mind it, although it’s quite annoying when you’re scanning your 17-odd open tabs, and can’t find the one open…