Google to display favicons in results pages?
The reaction seems to be mixed, and it is not officially confirmed by Google, but it appears that the search giant has been toying with the idea of displaying website favicons on the left hand side of URLs displayed in their search engine results pages (SERPs). JohnMu, a Google employee responded to the question in a webmaster forum saying, “We do a ton of tests every year, so I wouldn’t be surprised to accidentally stumble across something like this :-).” This obviously does not mean Google has taken an official stance that they are planning on rolling this out, but they are seemingly considering it. And why not?