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- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+207My question is, why the hell are you surfing AOL?
~Welcome to the internet.... - CoyoteByte, on 10/12/2007, -8/+206Good lord... It's like the got out the Xerox machine and made a copy of Yahoo!
- asurroca, on 10/12/2007, -3/+169@pwill:
uhh, yeah, alphabetical order... why is that surprising? - zizzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+126Comparison screenshot:
http://i12.tinypic.com/2cyocw9.jpg - kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+95They have different logos and URLs that is it.
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -9/+97I'm on your site, stealin your layoutz
- CoyoteByte, on 10/12/2007, -8/+73On the other hand, it will make the two companies eventual merger easier.
- inspecality, on 10/12/2007, -6/+70Frick coyote stop commenting.
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -7/+71Oh no, im not getting tricked into not only looking at AOL's page, but Yahoo's too.
Next digg like this is going to be IE copies Opera. No foolin me into these things! - tbeseda, on 10/12/2007, -3/+67omfg.
it's a blatant dupe. are they that desperate?
what can Yahoo! do? legally? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -38/+81Jesus. Even the menus are in the same order.
Autos
Finance
Games
GeoCities
Groups
HotJobs
vs.
Auto
Finance
Games
Help
Jobs - Jotaro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37@jok3r
Its sarcasm, dude - Lax32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36But this is AOL we are talking about.
Yeah, the same people that pretty much could have had a complete monopoly had they played their cards right but blew it. - dsuther2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34more evidence of how incredibly worthless and god awful everything that AOL does nowadays is
- lolx, on 10/12/2007, -10/+42Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/26/aol-one-step-behind-again-new-home-page-identical-to-yahoo/
- elig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35What are you talking about? This is *so* not a rip-off of Yahoo. For example:
* Whereas Yahoo has search links of: Web, Images, Video, Local, Shopping
...the AOL site has links of Web, Images, *News*, and Local.
* Whereas Yahoo has two links right underneath its logo of: "My Yahoo!" and "My Mail"
...the AOL site has two links of "AOL Mail" and "Page Tour".
I could go on, but *anyone* should be able to realize that clearly AOL has created their own original work.
(Personally, I'm amazed that anyone at AOL in Dull-es is clued in enough to what a Silicon Valley company is doing to even have the ability to copy it!) - rstrb8r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33In a panic, the web designer went to Yahoo! home page, viewed source, copy and pasted it into an HTML doc, and edited it to use AOL branding. Or at least it sure appears that way... lawsuit?
- Zerocool82, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30Can Yahoo legally sue?
- hollidaydoc1, on 10/12/2007, -17/+38I guess AOL figured that if Yahoo copied Digg's site, Yahoo wouldn't mind if AOL copied their site.
- Nonyaz, on 06/23/2009, -1/+21Feedback link: http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/feedback.adp
- EelfinnTy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23Apparently their search is also "enhanced by Google"
- vraicovi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Why does this surprise anyone? Did we already forget that they ripped off Digg for Netscape.com?
- tribalsun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Those web designers were just doing as they were told by some jackass "VP of whatever" to "just make it like Yahoo, theirs looks nice." Web designers for large corporations like AOL have very little to do with determining the final product, they're just hired hands.
- Speed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17http://www.netscape.com , owned by AOL. I rest my case.
- andritchie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Wow.
What a shameless blatant rip-off. - archlich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13now how will you finish your coffee table!?
- goblindegook, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14AOL never sued the Gaim developers, they only requested a name change over the AIM trademark, which they must protect or risk losing. And that's a totally different issue because, as you should know, trademarks != copyright.
- stevebor1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13
- venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Good plan steve. Now how will we go about getting it accomplished?
- ndiderrich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10AOL has always been bad, and you're just realizing it now?
- rjpaez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I wonder what jack ass web designer over at AOL thought it was a good idea to waste their time copying Yahoo!'s layout... then post it up so the world can access it.
- ajgv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"Internally, I’m hearing AOLers refer to the new portal as “the Yahoo Portal” although its official name is AOL 3.0."
AOL 3.0, eh? i think i've still got a floppy called AOL 3.0 with "200 free hours of internet." - geekitechture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@ripaez
It must've been Jason Calacanis' idea at some point. - twelve17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@spookyttws:
"but you can only do so much with tables, and because both companies have way too much crap to put on one page, they were bound to overlap at some point."
Right, because AOL and Yahoo are the only two websites on the Internet that use tables and have too much crap to put on one page. - goblindegook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8And to answer zerocool82's question: Yes, they can, there are enough similarities here for a copyright lawsuit.
- goblindegook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yeah, calling them *****, that'll get them to listen.
- boardo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I really don't see anything wrong with Yahoo, even after all of these years. I couldn't tell you what AOL does right or wrong, I have never used any of their services.
- sylentmode, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11funny.....sony had that opportunity TONS of times......they love to see how quickly they can fail
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It looks like they just copied the source of Yahoo's page, changed a few colors, and replaced the Yahoo logo with an AOL logo. Hell, even the ads are in the same place!
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I think the dislike of Mencia goes all the way to the point that people don't like to discuss him even in joke fashion. Hell, I think most as well as myself, believed the show would have been off their air after the first season. I guess I shouldn't have denied the stupidity power of the masses to somehow get him fans that watch it (though I can't say I know one person who watches it). "Here, have some blatant offensive comedy that offers very little originality as well as nothing to think about afterwards" ... I mean, if I want that, I will watch Family Guy (and I do too).
- counterplex, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15@pwill
The menus are in the same order because both chose to list the menu items in alphabetic order. - kahlessreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7As so begins the clone wars
- disillusioned, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Since 1993.
- DrunkenPirate34, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Google does it too: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/11/google-copies-ie7-promo-material-from-yahoo/
- BrokenLaptop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This company is run by people who were against expanding to broadband.
- drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8AOL damn that reminds me i havent recieved a CD in the mail in over a year
- haloevo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8oh my goodness. it doesn't get any more similar than that.
- nick34, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Wow, -3 diggs eh. I thought for sure the Mencia haters would come out in full there.
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Probably a dumb question; Does anyone actually go to AOL's website?
- angusware, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6All Our Layouts are belong to yahoo
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