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Google ripped off Yahoo!'s IE7 promo page?

by Jordan Running on December 12, 2006 at 02:05 PM

Google's "Don't be evil" maxim has been called into question (again) after Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny pointed out that Google's new Internet Explorer 7 promo page looked suspiciously similar to the one Yahoo! put up a few months ago. And by "suspiciously similar" I mean practically identical. The layout was exactly the same, most of the wording was the same or very similar--basically everything except the colors and graphics. Google was quick to change the promo page, but Zawodny's blog has a screenshot of the original which is pretty damning. He says that he "checked with our PR group to make sure that this wasn't just a template that Microsoft gave to all partners," and they confirmed that that's not the case. So what's up with this, Google? Did some lazy intern put that page together? Please tell me heads are rolling.

[Via Matt Cutts]

Tags: google, ie7, jeremy zawodny, JeremyZawodny, matt cutts, MattCutts, promo, ripoff, yahoo

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TechflockDec 12th 2006 2:37PM

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I just hope that Google stops copying anything else from Yahoo! .. atleast not their search engine and their awful beta mail.. Anyway .. someone is gonna lose their job at Google! Plain Stupid!

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TimirDec 12th 2006 2:46PM

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And I think that Yahoo! Has more taken at Google than now Google takes at Yahoo!

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PaulDec 12th 2006 5:11PM

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On the screenshot of the website in the browser, Download Squad is opened on the far left. You can tell by the favicon.

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Jordan RunningDec 12th 2006 5:13PM

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Nice catch, Paul!

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AnkherDec 12th 2006 5:25PM

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Google has an IE7 promo page? when they recommend every once in a while to anybody using IE (i.e. most computers in public places) to either get the Google Toolbar, if they don't have it, or upgrade to Firefox 2 because it's safer, etc.?

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