Today's google doodle seems to reinforce that "as much like preschool as humanly possible" is exactly what they were shooting for here.

https://www.google.ca/?doodle=22175023&hl=en&nord=1

New favicon? https://www.google.com/favicon.ico - is still the old one.

The new one probably not populated to all their location yet, but adding a random query string does the trick.

https://www.google.com/favicon.ico?newlogo

(I'm seeing a four-colors capitalize G.)

I don't think that works very well as a favicon - I see a "c" first and then my eyes have to force it into a G.

Thank you for linking it, hadn't reached my interwebs yet.

why does adding "?" work at getting a different logo? not a web guy here

I'm not sure how it works at Google, but adding a random query string usually helps because of how proxy servers handle caching. Proxy servers usually treat an URL with different query string as different resource and cache them separately (e.g. /posts?page=2 is definitely not the same as /posts?page=1).

This is not only applies to caching by ISP, but also includes caching by the website itself as well (some websites put proxy in front of their server to cache rarely changed portion of the site, or even using CDN.).

interesting, thanks!

Anything after "?" is a query parameter that the server can read and then apply additional logic to for a response. In this case, they have code that responds to new logo and returns the new logo instead of the previous one.

It's actually not querying anything, since it works for any query you pass. What happens is that you're bypassing cache because you're loading a different page, as explained by sirn above.

https://www.google.com/favicon.ico?anyquery

Looks like Google's search pages pull the favicon from here: https://www.google.com/images/branding/product/ico/googleg_l...

How'd you figure that out?

From the <link rel="shortcut icon"> presumably.

That big colorful G is much nicer than the squiggly blue lowercase one.

Wondering the same. If it has changed, then ISP cache will take some time to reflect.

If your ISP is caching HTTPS requests, you have a problem.

CDNs get copies of SSL keys so they can do their job: serving data. They are logically part of the serving infrastructure for example.com

Citation? Maybe some sites do that, but I find it really hard to believe that Google issues keys with a CN of "*.google.com" to anyone else.

Have you ever seen a toddler obsessed with Google just because of the colorful logo? It happens all the time.

FWIW my three-year old can instantly locate the Google Chrome icon, which he has dubbed "the pizza".

Well, it's one that they had a choice from before, which they hadn't picked.

First column, fourth row down: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/SEnK37orPGI/AAAAAAAAAp...

Honestly, the block letter G on the far right, next to the lollipop, is the icon with the most character.

Actually fits their rebranding, too, but I don't think anyone at Google pays much attention.

Everyone's been seeing a lot of rainbows lately, too.

Have you only been looking at them on a computer? On a phone, and especially on a watch, flat designs seem far superior to me.