On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does Chrome use the Windows Media Player logo? > Why do web pages without favicons default to the google favicon? > > just wondering.
I am not 100% sure but I think this is a side effect of the way Google links you to content after a search. When you click a search result you actually go to something like: http://www.google.com/?ireallywanted=http://www.thethingIwantedtovisit.com Then Google does a redirect to the actual page, probably after logging that you clicked that result. Probably (and I'm just guessing) something about the redirect makes your browser think "oh that's the favicon I should use for this site since it's just a redirect from that other site over there". Then - if you don't tell the browser any different - there you go: Bob's your Uncle and Google's your favicon. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353426 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
