The Ohio State University favicon ================================= The smallest digital application is the favicon. This is the small icon that appears in web browsers near the page name. Measuring a ...

What Google said. “Clarified in the favicon documentation that both the favicon file and the home page of the site must be allowed for crawling by Googlebot-Image and Googlebot respectively ...

Postscript: Google’s new favicon has the official word from Google that the new icon is from the contest that was held. Search Engine Land is owned by Semrush.