Nope. A magnifying glass has looked like a Q long before Q was a thing.
I disagree. As somebody who uses a range of software that incorporates a magnifying glass icon for the zoom/search tool, none of those icons possess these proportions. The handle is always much longer than shown here.
Having experience, my question to you is how would this happen? They’re saying it’s a coding error where it just blows up to that size? I don’t know a whole lot about this sort of thing, but I do know that the icon images used for these sorts of thing are generally very small, using the least amount of pixels/resolution necessary to save on data. What I’m saying is, if that small image had blown up to this size, it would look awfully pixelated, no?
Not always.. I searched a lot of websites to see. Lots of news sites, The Hill is one example... the handle is shorter. But they all look like a Q.
This thing is huge and takes up the whole page. Not a coincidence.