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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Sign up to join this communityWhen 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?
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.