LAist: Google Caught Stealing from Yahoo!

Dennis Domingo

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:48:44 -0800

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ie7-promo-page/

SpuriousQ

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:08:47 -0800

Mea culpa, didn't read your post carefully. I retract my previous comment.

SpuriousQ

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:41:45 -0800

You have the story wrong. The screenshots were taken *by* Jeremy Zawodny for his blog. The rip-off is *not* that Jeremy's browser uses Yahoo! toolbar, but that the page designs are highly similar.

tony

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:00:08 -0800

dont get me wrong: i like all three companies (and i too worked with/for MSFT as a temp, of sorts, during the early WebTV days right before and right after they bought the start up. i like all the companies, i use many of their products every day. but on this one, Google, which i was lucky enough to have lunch as their guest last month, blew it on this one. as for it being a template, that was brought up in the comments here

Big Mo

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:19:54 -0800

I would have to agree with them being lazy and with the first poster about MSFT. I also work for a MSFT partner and what happens frequently is that MSFT gives a company a template layout, which companies can modify.In this case, I would ascertain that the template was leaning toward Yahoo. The bad goes to Google's online Brand Manager or someone on his team who decided to keep it as is and behold....WE NOTICED, but in the grand scheme of Google dominance, it's a minor blip really. :-) Big Mo

tony

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:02:58 -0800

how exactly was I proved wrong? Google's screenshot shows the identical web page which included Yahoo's toolbar. Then once the blogosphere (including this blog) exposed Google, they changed their page. If Google was in the right why would they completely change their page?

KneeJerk

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:44:32 -0800

Don't argue with Tony. He's always right. Even when you actually PROVE him wrong, he's still right. Got that? Now I gotta kick some bloggers off of wikipedia, so bye for now.

LA Scumbag

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:52:40 -0800

Everyone steals from each other nowadays. It's just a part of our everyday lives. weather it's an idea, a riff, a design. Are we really stealing in the end, or are we just borrowing from the others.

tomdog

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:27:41 -0800

If you look at the Google page now the screenshot is different. I still don't think that Google stole the graphic, I think that MSFT made only one and gave it to both of them. Our company can not create any graphics of or about MSFT products, we can only take what they give us - that must have been the case with this one as well. Google may have 'fixed' the screenshot at this point.

Tony

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:56:01 -0800

i was thinkng along those lines too until i saw that Goog had stolen Yahoos screenshot too

tomdog

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:56:41 -0800

It's not necessarily a rip off. The company I work for is a certified MSFT partner and has other partnerships with MSFT - the restrictions MSFT places on any presentation of their products is extreme. It's more likely that the page looks that way because it is what MSFT stipulated contractually. MSFT regards Google to be much more of a threat/problem than Google and most likely would enjoy any perceived gaffe or snub of Google.