The easiest way to get a favicon file to show is to upload it to your site root, next to your index.html home page. If it's not in the site root, you need to have a link to it in the <head> of your page pointing the browser to the correct location.
In either case, the file also needs to be uploaded to the server, it won't happen automatically when you upload an updated page.
Changes to existing Favicon.ico files may not show right away due to browser caching. Chrome also seems to have a difficult time letting go of Favicons when you update them. It will change, but may take some time. Clearing your browser cache may help, but it might take a few attempts.
As for Google, the snippets used in the search results (usually your <title> and description <meta> tags) won't update until Google re-crawls your website. That could happen anywhere from a couple of hours to a month or more from the time you upload updated pages, depending on how often Google goes through your site.
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