

Each of the segments had its sides cut diagonally, which created a sense of swirling and moving, adding a sense of speed and dynamics. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.The emblem, adopted by the browser in 2008, boasted a three-dimensional rounded figure, composed of three equal segments and a blue sphere in the middle. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. The Google Favicon crawler ignores robots.txt rules when the crawl was requestedĮxcept as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. Updates can take a few days or longer to appear in search User agent crawl your page, you can request Signals gathered during indexing, or triggered by a user request.

It is a low-volume crawler: it may visit the homepage of your site occasionally based on Google Favicon is the user agent for downloading favicons defined by websites. If this type of imagery is discovered within a favicon, Google won't show any favicon that it deems inappropriate, including pornography or hate

Google Search only supports one favicon per site, where a site is defined by the hostname.

You must follow these guidelines to be eligible for a favicon in Google Search results.Ī favicon isn't guaranteed in Google Search results, even if all guidelines are met. Updates can take a few days or longer to appear in search results. If you makeĬhanges to your favicon and want to inform Google about the changes, you can Google looks for and updates your favicon whenever it crawls your home page. The URL can be a relative path ( /smile.ico) orĪbsolute path ( ). Set the rel attribute to one of the following strings:
