The Adido Digital Blog

Sometimes in the world of web design blogs and the internet blogsphere, many things are discussed and talked about. Most of the time these things are really worthy of discussion and provide great insights into the industry. Sometimes however, they are not.

I noticed today that Google had changed its 'favicon'. For those of you who don't know, the favicon is the icon which is shown in the tab/address bar when you are using Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox. Here is an example;


When I noticed this, I thought it was strange and didn't look that good. That was about as far as it went. However, this has been picked up by the blogsphere and has been discussed in many places. Here, here and here. There is also an official statement from Google!

"We recognized there was a need for a Google icon that would better work across multiple applications including web, mobile and client applications. We felt the small 'g' had many of the characteristics that best represent our brand: it's simple, playful, and unique. We will be looking to improve and enhance this icon as we move forward."

Personally, I think there are more important things to write about. Is this really newsworthy? And yes, I am fully aware of writing this post is very, very contradictory to the point I am trying to make :)