Google ripped off Yahoo!'s IE7 promo page?

by Jordan Running Dec 12th 2006

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Techflock said 2:37PM on 12-12-2006

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!

Timir said 2:46PM on 12-12-2006

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

Paul said 5:11PM on 12-12-2006

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

Jordan Running said 5:13PM on 12-12-2006

Nice catch, Paul!

Ankher said 5:25PM on 12-12-2006

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.?

julian said 1:08AM on 12-14-2006

probably what happened
is that Microsoft gave
them the design...

englishmen said 4:05AM on 12-15-2006

Naughty naughty google but am i missing something isn't the complete yahoo search homepage a complete rip off of googles homepage?

Greyson said 12:16PM on 12-18-2006

I agree with julian,
Microsoft has probably been behind this.

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