Google’s New Favicon Inspired from AVG ?

by Sriganesh (6) on 11 January, 2009 | Categories : Chrome, Google

Today, I was surprised to see the new favicon on google and its related sites. I knew someone would have surely made an entry on Devil’s workshop and Deepak did mentioned it here. But the new image was so familiar to me and later I found out it was like that of AVG antivirus logo. Actually, Google was inspired for the new logo by a design submitted by André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil. But I think this what would have actually happened.

AVG favicon + 90 degree turn + Old favicon + Some smudging -> New favicon

googlenewfaviconatdevilsworkshop

Sorry, I’m very poor at photoshop :)

Links: Google blog | Old Favicon Change | AVG

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  1. #
    Pat Bitton on January 11, 2009

    Neat construct – thanks :-)

  2. #
    p@r@noid on January 11, 2009

    Very interesting find…..
    Dugg for the unique find.

  3. #
    Sriganesh on January 11, 2009

    Thanks buddy… :)

  4. #
    Kalpak Valaulikar on January 12, 2009

    cool stuff

  5. #
    anonymous on January 12, 2009

    The AVG icon is basically the windows logo rotated 180 degrees anyway!

  6. #
    Rahul on January 12, 2009

    Great information in depth. i was wondering why Google changed its favicon.

  7. #
    CoffeeBeans on January 12, 2009

    Rotate it another 90 degrees and you have the Windows Vista icon with the exact same angles

  8. #
    Jason on January 12, 2009

    Not surprising since Google uses the AVG virus scanner on their search results/GMail attachments.

  9. #
    Pratik Parekh on January 12, 2009

    i think the favicon…is more like the one used by http://www.guruji.com
    it looks almost same

  10. #
    Deepak Jain on January 12, 2009

    @ Pratik Parekh
    Not exactly.. But its usage of ‘g’ on the favicon resembles with that of guruji.com

  11. #
    Pavan Kumar on January 18, 2009

    That’s a nice find…. A deep observation can assist you identify such thing… stumbled :)

  12. #
    Sriganesh on January 18, 2009

    Thanks… :)

  13. #
    Gautam on March 20, 2009

    Lol.. yea….

  14. #
    Bapun on March 20, 2009

    Interesting observation there…

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