New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again?

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 11, 2009 @12:52PM from the matters-of-deep-significance dept.

theodp writes "Last June, Google rolled out a new favicon, the small branding icon that graces your URL bar when you visit Google. Which, as it turned out, bore a striking similarity to Garth Brooks' Circle-G logo. Well, Google went back to the drawing board and has come back with a new favicon, which it says was inspired by — not copied from, mind you — its users' submitted ideas. Some are also seeing inspiration elsewhere for the new favicon, which consists of white 'g' on a background of four color swatches. Take the AVG antivirus icon, for instance. Or everybody's favorite memory toy, Simon. Or — in perhaps the unkindest cut of all — the four-color Microsoft Windows logo, shown here with a superimposed white '7'. Anything else come to mind?" What comes to mind for me is just how obsessed many people are with the Google favicon.

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Re:this place now dies for this script by dotancohen · 2009-01-11 13:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

looks like someone tossed 4 colors on a square LOL
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and im getting annoyed at:
snip idiot a/c

Then go away LOL

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it reminds me baidu.com foodprint by anton_kg · 2009-01-11 13:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

which is chinese search enginge
Re:Hardcore Slashdotters won't notice... by moosesocks · 2009-01-11 17:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Real hackers just stick the UTP on their tongue and decipher the signals with their taste buds
So you're the final cylon?

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