Would you like to see your site’s favicon in Google search results?

Posted by Preeti Prakash on January 28, 2009 in Search Engine Optimization

Hey, I just came across an exciting update going on in Google SERPs. A favicon along with search results! Crap, I don’t believe it. Till now, we were able to see favicon at two places only:

In browser tab.
In browser bookmarks/favorites.

Now it’s expected that Google search results too will display it.

Favicon in search results for site: command search

It was first noticed by Brian Ussery accidently. Some people said that it is a firefox extension that enables favicon in search results. But the favicon is hosted on google domain which confirms that it is something going on by our ‘beloved Googlers’. John Muller while replying to this discussion in Google Webmaster Group confirmed that they were doing some testing.

But then, who knows what’s up with Big G! May be in a few months we will be able to see it for all sites. IMHO, it will be nice to see favicon in search results as it will help in recognizing a site that was visited by someone once and he is not able to recall its domain name. He can easily identify it from favicon (a representation of a website) rather than by visiting every site in search results.

What you guys think about it? Would you like to see a favicon in search results?

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