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Google Fixed Favicon Bug and Search Console Crawl Stats Data Gap

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Google resolved bugs affecting favicon display in search results and missing crawl data in Search Console over the weekend.

Google fixed two bugs impacting SEO practitioners this weekend: favicons were failing to display in Google Search result snippets for many sites, and two days of crawl statistics data were missing from the Search Console crawl stats report. Both issues have now been resolved, restoring normal functionality for search visibility and indexing monitoring.
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