If you have been surfing online from last few days you must have visited Google, and perhaps, should have noticed the new Google favicon. If you are not able to see it please wait for the website to load properly.
If you bookmark any of the Google! pages you would see a new and attractive ‘g’ with the bookmark. This is the new approved Favicon. Google has updated its favicon after 8.5 years. When we look at the icon it seems easy to design but as per Google officials it took more time and plenty of work to design it. As per Google Officials-

The design process we went through was rigorous and interesting, so we thought we would share more of it here. We tried in total more than 300 permutations. It was much harder than we thought at first. We wanted something distinctive and noticeable, so we aimed toward transparency or semi-transparency, so the image would have a more distinctive noticeable shape than just a block,” Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web Designer, explained the design process of the new favicon.
We wanted something that embraced the colorfulness of the logo, yet wouldn’t date itself. Since we don’t really have a symbol that means Google, we felt it best to work with the logo and letters within it.

There is a new question now. Why did google update the Favicon?
According to Google the main reason behind the implementation of the new favicon was expansion of google search. Google Search is now available on multiple web platforms. They said

The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices

 Take a look at the new favicon-

 

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