Have you noticed that some of the addresses in your favorites are preceded by a small icon? Personally, I think they're great visual cues that break up the monotony of URLs. These mini-icons can be ...

Some web pages display a small image (PNG, etc.) in the page tab title, address bar, or browser bookmarks. This image is called a favorites icon or Favicon for short. Here's a step-by-step guide on ...

This post by John Gruber prompted me to fix a longstanding annoyance of MacStories that, for some reason, we had forgotten about: making the favicon Retina-ready. Old (non-retina) favicons are 16 × 16 ...

After launching this design for the mobile search results last October, this is now officially live for desktop search. Google has rolled out the site names, updated favicons, and sponsored labels on ...

Google added tiny favicon icons to its search results this week for some reason, creating more clutter in what used to be a clean interface, and seemingly without actually improving the results or the ...

Google is already testing the new site name and favicon design change they launched just a couple of weeks ago on the desktop results. This brings the favicon and site name to the desktop search ...

Google revised their documentation on Favicons in order to add definitions in response to user questions received about favicons and what to use. The updated version of the documentation is ...

For years, Safari has ignored one of the most useful tiny little features of modern web browsers: favicons. Those are the little site-specific icons that show up in browser tabs and bookmark lists to ...

Google has made the sitename, favicon and sponsored label live on all desktop searches, like it did with mobile searches last October. To be clear, we saw google testing this on desktop in November ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Google is backtracking on a controversial search engine redesign, announcing ...

Last year, Google announced that all mobile Search results would prominently feature a site favicon and domain name. Along with a prominent “Ad” label, these series of changes are now coming to ...