Google has recently decided to get with the times and revive its worn out favicon. Marissa Mayer wrote on Google’s blog that the favicon – the small icon, which appears in browsers just before the URL or in lists of bookmark – has been changed to improved suit new web gadgets. “We wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices,” she wrote.

“So the new favicon is one of those, but we’ve also developed a group of logo-based icons that all hang together as a unified set.” The favicon that has not been changed from past nine years required to upgrade from the upper-case ‘G’, which moved out quietly last week and was restored with a lower-case ‘g’ in blue. There are actually more than 300 possible favicons debatable to reinstate the ‘O.G’, but the one at present displaying would not be the final one for sure. Google is accepting new ideas for its favicon at http://www.google.com/faviconideas

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