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The importance of favicons in website OSINT research


FAVICON OVERVIEW Favicons on websites are graphic elements that show up in the form of a small icon – be it in a browser tab panel next to the website’s name, or in bookmarked links to websites. You can also see favicons from the level of Google search, if you wrap a website’s name in quotation marks, such as seen in the search results below: Links to favicons on specific target websites can be located by viewing the webpage’s source code.

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