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Google's Search documentation now explicitly lists seven favicon file formats it supports (BMP, GIF, ICO, PNG, JPEG, PPM, TIFF).

Gary Illyes from Google clarified that Googlebot downloads JSON files but doesn't parse them—parsing happens in the indexing stage instead.

SERoundtable reports Google refreshed its canonicalization help docs for improved readability without altering core guidance.

Google now enforces single-pass HTML unescaping in JSON-LD extraction, meaning double-escaped entities like & will no longer be auto-corrected.