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Google backtracked Friday from its controversial plan to mix “favicons” in with search results, which critics had called a deceptive mix of search results and paid advertising.

Google is now rolling out what it calls “site names” in the mobile search results. Site names more prominently show the name of the website, as opposed to just the URL, at the top of the snippet.

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 ...