Wow! And I thought I disliked the previous one! For those living under a rock, Google changed it’s favicon for the second time in about 6 months. The first change is detailed here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/one-fish-two-fish-red-fish-blue-fish.html
And now looking at this second one:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-new-favicon.html
I can see that the reason I hated the first change is that it was a big departure from their established brand. Grey and blue aren’t exactly their standard rainbow of primary colors.
With this second iteration, they bring back the rainbow. And now I realize the real reason why I hate both designs. It is the lower case, serif “g”. To me, Google has always been “G” and not “g“.