Google need an ICO for search results, favicon not enough

I just discovered that to display your favicon in Google and Bing search results, it should be an ICO with type image/x-icon

In <head> add an ICO

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://example.com/images/bookmark-icon.ico" type="image/x-icon">

…in addition to the standard icon file

<link rel="icon" href="https://example.com/images/bookmark-icon.png" type="image/png">

… and the icon will show up next to search results.

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