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- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -19/+140@Zinite
If you read the article, you'd know that it wasn't a Microsoft template
As well, look at the picture from the Google site:
http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie7/getie7.gif
The red Y! has just been blurred out! You can still see it!
(just underneath the 'back' button) - Zinite, on 10/12/2007, -73/+182More likely Microsoft sent both Google and Yahoo! a layout for them to use for their toolbars.
- JoeDuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61Zawodny confirmed this was no template, and check out this guy's graphic "proof" of what was done by the Google graphic person who probably had "designers block" and panicked: http://chir.ag/stuff/yahoo-to-google.gif
- RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57Bloggers won't let people get away with anything
- brendandonhue, on 10/12/2007, -17/+70@matthwk - tables are not deprecated.
- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -5/+56From the article:
"And I've checked with our PR group to make sure that this was just a template that Microsoft gave to all partners. It's not."
So, I guess reading the article would answer your question... - jtdgrz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51@matthwk
Google is known for using 'depricated' HTML for smaller file sizes, hence faster load times. - PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -12/+55I showed my dad who works at Yahoo and he says the template was, in fact, Yahoo's and not something Microsoft sent to both companies.
- ko16736, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44Direct links to syndicated pages.
http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie7/
http://downloads.yahoo.com/internetexplorer/index.php - jtdgrz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+50@nvision
You mean buying great ideas. - floppyparty, on 10/12/2007, -12/+50Where would Google be if Yahoo! never existed?
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37I thought Google Cache rips off every page on the Internet already.
- fletchowns, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34why is google rocking IE7 when they're in bed with firefox?
- valken, on 10/12/2007, -8/+39busted!
- canerten, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37At least Google has changed the order of optimized for.. :)
# Google Toolbar
# Google Search as your default
# Yahoo! Search as your default
# Yahoo! Toolbar - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33You forgot to add the fact that you love ipods and hate sony.
- PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Especially when the blogger works at the company being copied
- Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -25/+52New low? When did they sink to a low already? For me, this is Google just making a bad move.
- t0mmmmmmm, on 10/12/2007, -23/+50who still cares about the use of tables in design besides css fascists? they're handy
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35google fans should really reconsider what theyre saying...
microsoft copy google, microsoft gets flamed for being uninnovative
google copies yahoo, yahoo gets put down and google gets praised
how the hell does that work?
yahoo got revamped, and its looking pretty nice compared to what it did a few years ago
google hasnt done very much at all to its looks (although i see nothing wrong with it being simplistic) - MattyLite, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31Somebody's gonna lose their job :)
- lokoluis15, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Wow, way to let the popular kid totally get away with whatever he wants. This was clearly a bad move on Google's part, and it is not legitimized just because you like them more.
Silly Google fanboys. - nvision, on 10/12/2007, -14/+40Yahoo is developing some great ideas with flickr, del.icio.us, and their finance dept. is working on an amazing charting system. Google thrives on its simplicity/arrogance, and of course gmail.
- Hegemony, on 10/12/2007, -40/+64Ok, fine... lets look at the tallies to see who's had more good ideas.
Google - 102,395,727
Yahoo - 12 - canerten, on 10/12/2007, -9/+32it's a shame for google. yahoo should make fun of it...
- computerdude33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23@CBTF: Sounds great, where do I sign up?
Can I also bash the Zune and say "Wii" at least four times in every sentence about anything electronic?
(BTW, I'm a member now Wii Wii Wii) - sonicspike, on 10/12/2007, -14/+37@ PunkRampant: My dad's more original than your dad!
- Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23I can't figure out how this could be untangled legitimately.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Coincidentally my power supply is also optimized for google, providing me with a google browsing experience that lesser power supplies cannot.
- phoenixp3k, on 10/12/2007, -9/+29What if both companies hired the same guy to do the layout. Perhaps there was no written agreement to prevent that person to use his design elsewere. Bad management...
- Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Market share my friend.
- GuyHersh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I made a little comparison picture between the two "Optimized for" pictures, where it zooms in to where google burred out the yahoo toolbar logo.
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9711/comparisonbu7.jpg
You surprise me google... - brianez21, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23It is funny that the Yahoo! page will not show on my Mac - saying "I don't meet the system requirements" - yet the Google page doesn't care ;-)
- Jamfan16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Maybe it was an intern... whose hopes of working at Google upon graduation are fading fast!
"Give the stupid IE7 page to the intern. He can't screw it up."
Plagiarism is not the answer, kids. - tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20My thoughts exactly. If yahoo did this, everyone would make a big deal out of it, but since Google did it, it's ok...?
I still like Google, just a bad move. - a3r0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Hey, that post is ripping off everyone else who didn't read the article. How dare you?
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Of course.. this is a Yahoo employee's blog..
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16http://www.duggmirror.com/tech_news/Google_Blatantly_Copies_Yahoo
- Beaupedia, on 09/28/2008, -2/+14Read The Article! God, what is the problem with you guys. You're like the fourth person to say that. The guy covers this in his article. According to him Microsoft did not provide a template.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17That guy must have like 8gigs of memory to support his tab addiction. I mean, wow.
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I'm pretty sure both Google and Yahoo both have a couple people on their payroll who can whip up a ***** little IE7 web page in no time flat. It just doesn't seem likely they would both happen to hire someone only for this page, and it end up being the same individual.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+21Zodiac...if it was the other way around, you would be screaming and calling for a boycott of all things Yahoo.
- Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10What had this to do about Microsoft? why bring them into it?
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I know Google is everyones wetdream but they copied Yahoo whats so hard about facing facts It wasnt a template by M$
- jtdgrz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Can we get a link to the actual page? IEAK is used to build a "custom" IE7, but not the page itself, is it?
- PKO17, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12No, m0laria, because you just proved broomett's point.
- arglborps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The only thing I'm terribly disappointed about is Google sinking so low, that they are putting ads on their pages for Internet Explorer. What's next? Linus Torvalds singing the gospel on SCO?
- brianez21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You really think Google wants all those IE6 people floating around the net with spyware sucking up all the resources we could otherwise be searching for pr0n with? I didn't think so!
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12google search, adwords.
Do i get a cookie? - cbrian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@mikester540: Do you think you might be missing something?
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