{"id":524,"date":"2008-06-09T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/google-wants-new-ideas-for-its-favicon\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T02:26:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T06:26:31","slug":"google-wants-new-ideas-for-its-favicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/google-wants-new-ideas-for-its-favicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google wants new ideas for its Favicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a name=\"imageclose-525\"><div class=\"lb-album\"><a href=\"#image-525\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/seo-news\/uploaded_images\/favicon-774098.gif\"  ><span><\/span><\/a><\/div>              \r\n<a href=\"#imageclose-525\" class=\"css3lightbox-close\">\r\n\t\t\t\t   <div class=\"lb-overlay\" id=\"image-525\">\r\n                   <img src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/seo-news\/uploaded_images\/favicon-774109.gif\" alt=\"image-525\">\r\n                   <\/div><\/a>Google has recently decided to get with the times and revive its worn out favicon. Marissa Mayer wrote on Google&#8217;s blog that the favicon &#8211; the small icon, which appears in browsers just before the URL or in lists of bookmark &#8211; has been changed to improved suit new web gadgets. &#8220;We wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the new favicon is one of those, but we&#8217;ve also developed a group of logo-based icons that all hang together as a unified set.&#8221; The favicon that has not been changed from past nine years required to upgrade from the upper-case &#8216;G&#8217;, which moved out quietly last week and was restored with a lower-case &#8216;g&#8217; in blue. There are actually more than 300 possible favicons debatable to reinstate the &#8216;O.G&#8217;, 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 <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has recently decided to get with the times and revive its worn out favicon. Marissa Mayer wrote on Google&#8217;s blog that the favicon &#8211; the small icon, which appears in browsers just before the URL or in lists of bookmark &#8211; has been changed to improved suit new web gadgets. &#8220;We wanted to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}