Why Google's Favicon Crawler Is Completely Separate From Its Page Indexer

Why Google's Favicon Crawler Is Completely Separate From Its Page Indexer (And Why That Matters) The symptom: ProToolTrack's favicon in Google Search results was wrong for six months. The file on the server was correct. Re-indexing the page 5 times did nothing. The root cause: Google has two separate crawl systems—one for pages, one for favicons. They don't talk to each other. The fix: Change the favicon filename to trigger a fresh cache. This is how we debugged it. Testing the Obvious Wrong Gue