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Bing tests removing favicons from search result snippets

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Bing is experimenting with stripping favicons from its search result snippets, reducing the visual richness of the results page.

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SERoundtable reports that Microsoft Bing is testing the removal of favicons from search result snippets, making the SERP layout less visually graphic in appearance.

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