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by InclinedPlane 3983 days ago
Nothing wrong with the Floppy Disk icon. It's unique, which is all that matters. It no longer represents a physical thing that people use routinely, not a big deal. Now, if we could only figure out how to have search and zoom use different icons...
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Some applications use binoculars to indicate search. Yet that could easily me mistaken for zoom, though...

Iconifying things is hard.

a good zoom icon is a magnifying glass with a + (or -) sign inside