Microsoft seems to have rolled out a new shape for the favicons in its Bing search results. Instead of being circles, now they seem to be square. Khushal Bherwani spotted Bing testing this earlier, and when I tried this on New Year’s Eve, all my browsers only returned the square design for these search result … Read more
Microsoft has added favicons to the links within Bing Chat / Copilot. Favicons should make the links beneath the AI-generated answer more clickable and noticeable to users. I personally now see the favicons on all my tests within Bing Chat, now known as Copilot. I am not sure if this is a limited test or … Read more
Google is testing shading and adding color and depth to favicons that they display in the search result snippets. This was spotted some time ago but it seems to be more broadly being tested now, including the shading experiment. Here is a screenshot from Chandan Kumar from a few days ago on X – notice … Read more
Microsoft is testing showing larger favicons in the Bing Search results. The favicons look a lot larger in this test, here are side by side comparisons so you can see yourself. Here is what I see, the normal smaller favicons: Here is what Khushal Bherwani posted on Twitter: Frank Sandtmann also noticed this and posted … Read more
June 6, 2019 | Posted by Shay Harel Strange days have found us! A plague of Google bugs has reached biblical proportions, the mobile SERP now contains favicons, & ads have hit the Discovery Feed! It’s been a peculiar month in what has been a peculiar year thus far on the Google … Read more
On May 22nd, 2019, Google’s mobile SERP officially welcomed favicons. Many are touting the brand-building power of having favicons appear within your organic result. But is a picture really worth a thousand words? Who is helped most by the insertion of favicons onto the mobile SERP? Are there any losers? Does having a favicon make … Read more
Bing seems to be rolling out site name and favicons to its search results, much like Google did months ago on desktop and last year on mobile search. Now when you look at the Bing search results, you may start to see little favicons at the top left of the search result snippets, with the … Read more
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