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#1 Ninja Duck

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Posted 09 January 2009 - 06:48 PM

Google's new favicon:

Microsoft's logo:

Google's new favicon rotated 90 degrees:

COINCIDENCE?!?!

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Posted 09 January 2009 - 07:32 PM

QUOTE (Ninja Duck @ Jan 9 2009, 06:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

COINCIDENCE?!?!

Maybe.

I haven't seen the new favicon yet. Still the same lame old lowercase g.

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Posted 09 January 2009 - 10:26 PM

Yeah, and those have been the same four colours of the eBay logo since it started. But yeah, so what?

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 01:55 AM

Maybe you'll see it if you refresh it directly.

I'll start worrying as soon as eBay becomes bent on shoving their four colors into a window-like square.

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 03:08 AM

Now if someone could come up with a link to the Freemasons...

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 09:41 AM

I think the move from uppercase G to lowercase g was dumb and unnecessary. The Windowsesque one seems unnecessary too.

It looks a little 2000 to me.

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Posted 11 January 2009 - 10:05 PM

Who cares?

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 11:51 AM

Yeah... seriously... the only people that really should care are the marketing departments since this is what their jobs are suppose to be about...

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 03:09 PM

It's not like anyone is going to stop using Google, or they're going to lose ad revenue because of their favicon. Sure they probably won't let the same guy design their next one, but I have my doubts that anyone is getting fired over a 16x16 pixel square that appears near the top of one's browser.

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 03:21 PM

QUOTE (Heccubus @ Jan 23 2009, 09:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've seen weirder things happen. Albeit only that small, it is seen billions of times a day, so it is an important factor for brand recognition.

... and this is where the genius thought of it comes into play, because now Google influences people to associate this shape with its own brand, trying to gradually push Microsoft and others out of their minds.

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 03:53 PM

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... and this is where the genius thought of it comes into play, because now Google influences people to associate this shape with its own brand, trying to gradually push Microsoft and others out of their minds.

If that's the case, I welcome it. The push to further open-source implementation is a good one.

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Posted 26 July 2010 - 10:18 AM

civilian_number_two, on 09 January 2009 - 11:26 PM, said:

Yeah, and those have been the same four colours of the eBay logo since it started. But yeah, so what?

Now you're seeing it, it's all connected, I'm telling you.

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Posted 27 July 2010 - 07:52 AM

Wait, what about Fisherprice- oh god, they got our kids too! :crying:

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