The Cosmopolitan Blog

I like Google, because they don’t seem very egocentric. Let me explain. They often do things without screaming it to the world, they’ve launched beta programs like Google Transit other things without making a big splash.

But sometimes they make corporate changes and i wish they would explain them. The latest is the change in browser favicons. A favicon is a little icon that appears at the top of your browser (near where you type the web URL address) and is associated with a particular website or webpage. Go to http://www.google.com and see for yourself, see the little icon at the top?

Until 2008, Google’s favicon was the first one below. Then they changed it to the middle one below, and now, on January 9, 2009, they changed it again, to the last one below. A few blogs had picked up on it back in 2008, I’ve seen nothing for this latest change though.

While i loved the first one, i was always confused by the second one, it never seemed to gel with Google’s identity. Now this new one is interesting, it’s more artsy… I like. But how long will it stay? Do they have a site that discusses this? What are your thoughts? Does the favicon of a company have an effect on you?