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I don't see any favicons on my desktop search, which is what the links reference. Mobile favicons had been around for some time prior to those articles and con

• mthoms 6y ago
  Interesting. I'm still seeing them. Are we talking about the same thing? They aren't actual favicons btw, they are composed of text with the word "Ad" but formatted and positioned to look like exactly like favicons.
  • gundmc 6y ago
    Ah yes they did change the ad indicator as you described, but that's not what the pushback was against. They briefly changed desktop search to include favicons next to every native search result, making it way harder to quickly see what was and wasn't an ad (since every result had some image next to it). They rolled that back and it has not returned (yet). Check the screenshot from the first article you linked for the difference.
    • mthoms 6y ago
      Ahhh... right you are. Thanks for the correction!