Google confirmed it is working on fixing a bug with favicons not showing properly within Google Search. Rajan Patel, Google’s VP, Engineering for Search, said “It’s an issue on our end. We identified the issue and we’re addressing it as quickly as we can. Sorry that this happened.” The issue started earlier this week, when I saw a significant spike in complaints about favicons disappearing from the Google Search result snippets. What it looks like. Here are some screenshots of Google showing a default globe icon, which means Google is not able to pull the proper favicon from the site. This was already resolved: But there are still sites,…
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