When you look at Stackoverflow's recent tags you'll see that some have a little favicon in front of them. Conspicuously the affected tags are mostly Google products (android, google-chrome, google-drive-sdk, google-plus, ...).
Why is that?
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well, aside from the illuminati thing you are thinking about, mostly because google products have an icon and the c++ language for example hasnt a offical one ( my stupid believe )– NajzeroCommented Jun 6, 2013 at 8:12
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cuda, gpu, gpgpu also have 'favicons'– W55tKQbuRu28Q4xvCommented Jun 6, 2013 at 8:12
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1Do you think - for example - Apple-related tags don't have one because Apple doesn't allow to use their icons?– johk95Commented Jun 6, 2013 at 8:15
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Microsoft also involved, see azure. :)– Shadow WizardCommented Jun 6, 2013 at 9:41
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@Najzero well apparently - from the answers - it seems he wasn't so wrong about that illuminati thing.– Tomáš ZatoCommented Jan 28, 2016 at 19:38
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These tags are sponsored. A lot of the Facebook and Adobe tags have this as well.
Basically, the company pays for the little icon and an ad in the tag page.
answered Jun 6, 2013 at 9:36
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2That's very smart of Stackoverflow. That's a subtle way of doing advertisement– John MaxCommented Dec 23, 2016 at 12:28