Google says favicon display issue is on their end

There have been a growing number of complaints on X and LinkedIn about missing website favicons in Google Search. We covered this issue previously when Google was first seen struggling to display favicons in search results.

Now Google has confirmed this is simply a bug, and the team is working on resolving it.

Glenn Gabe posted on X, wrote: “LinkedIn lost its favicon over the past 12 hours or so. Seeing it gone consistently now across queries. Favicon looks good, square 64×64, crawlable, etc. So maybe on Google’s end (like others have seen recently).”

Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Search at Google, replied on X:

“It’s an issue on our end. We identified the issue and we’re addressing it as quickly as we can. Sorry that this happened.”

So this is now confirmed directly from Google the missing favicons are a bug on their end, not something site owners need to fix on their own, and the team is actively working to resolve it.

Updated – rajan patel said on x

“Not fixed yet, but should be in the next 12 hours or so.”

Updated –

Google’s favicon display issue appears to be resolved. i also checked search results ourselves, and website icons are now appearing normally alongside their logos.

Glenn Gabe posted an update on X, wrote:

“Google’s favicon problem continues to improve. Not sure if it’s fully fixed yet, but many have been corrected. Some examples below had the generic globe icon as of one day ago.”

Barry Schwartz also confirmed on X:

“The Google favicon bug should be 100% fixed now.”