I was about to ask that you post them side by side. Yours is certainly less jarring. It's the arc and the dual blue "zones" that bother me with the original. - Benjamin Golub

I just know the one on the left is sitting in a Googler's directory of alternatives somewhere... I wonder what the rationale was. - Kevin Fox

Yours is simpler but I still don't like the colors (is there any meaning for the colors btw?) EDIT: Well I guess it's the colors in their logo, but still... - directeur

I just can't understand the fascination and attention paid to what icon Google has chosen. Why is this even a little important? - Brian Sullivan

i would still rather it be less colors and not lower case, but i like this a lot better. less of that green is wonderful and the smooth edge of the blue is really nice. much better! - Rachel Lea Fox

I'm with Brian - Matthew DeVries

It's not like it's an important 100 year old iconic logo, like Pepsi. - Matthew DeVries

Well, Kevin's job is design I think, and he's sharing his ideas... The favicon doesn't matter that much for me personally but we still can talk about tastes, don't we? :) - directeur

I thought we were still carrying over the uproar over the change (which come on, didn't even deserve a thread). I guess I like the one on the left, the split green red makes me stabby - Matthew DeVries

I obsess over small things. Trust me: you benefit from my obsession even if you never know it. - Kevin Fox

Kevin, sure we do! UI is all about the smallest details :) - directeur

until I saw your huge version, I never realized it had a "g" in it, I always thought it was just an abstract color-splotch. - David Jeske

I personally like the original google favicon a lot. The one with a big multi-colored G. In this version you can hardly see the G. Also the use of so much color on this one clashes with the minimalistic bright colors on white background homepage design theme. - Bindu Reddy

It might be better if the lower counter was not in yellow. Yellow does not have sufficient contrast against white to make the figure-ground relationship work. Perhaps restrict it to white, green, red, and blue. - Neil Kandalgaonkar

I like yours, Kevin. Ship it! : ) - Jess Lee

I -think- the new (official) favicon had its weird color blocking in order to (roughly) give each color 1/4 of the total space. I dunno. To me, neither really reads as 'g' that well, and they don't evoke 'google' for me since I think of Google as mostly white. The original favicon used Google's colors much more subtly - one pixel wide lines bordering the white square - and used the capital G, the actual first letter in the official logo. - Andrew C

Argh, re-reading the official announcement for the 2nd Google favicon ( http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008... ) just drives me insane all over again. If the redesign was to more scalable icons for mobile devices, why are a bunch of them even busier and harder to read? - Andrew C

I dunno. I'm a visual person. I make my living as a designer. I just can't get bothered about this. shrug - Jason Wehmhoener