You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon — after all, we hadn’t in 8.5 years(!). The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices. So the new favicon is one of those, but we’ve also developed a group of logo-based icons that all hang together as a unified set.
Source: Official Google Blog
So it was not for Children Day’s, it is in fact, because the iPhone, Google has changed the favicon. After 8.5 years with a pretty good icon, they are changing to a worst one, because of the damn phone that’s changing the industry.
Update: Looks like the Google Reader favicon that is loaded in Safari is the 32×32 version (that is targeting the iPhone), slightly different from the traditional shown in Firefox and other browsers.
