Dec 13 2006
It has been talked about a few times this week that Google copied a customised IE7 download splash page straight from Yahoo. Check above link for screenshots.
This is bad news for Google because even if Google got an outside agency to create the page, it still reflects bad on the companies image.
Anyway, the page wasn’t up for long and has now been replaced with something more original.
Matt Cutts from Google responded with a nice article about how Yahoo has been copying Google for ages!
It just goes to show that even the big boys get it wrong at times! I sure would like to have been a fly on the wall in the Googleplex when that was discovered!
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December 13th, 2006 at 9:15 am
[...] Ben’s already covered this on the Web design blog but I felt I had to mention this as well. [...]
December 13th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Are these pages not the standard affiliate sign-up pages that Microsoft produce?
I’ve seen stuff like this before where you get a standard page layout and then you get to brand it up…
December 13th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Wayne, I heard that they weren’t. Can’t remember which blog it was on but the author said he was certain that it wasn’t a template.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Assuming that Google are using a 3rd party for their design services, they’re likely to be revising their relationship with them any time now…
December 14th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Too right, you’d have thought they would have in house designers though wouldn’t you!
April 28th, 2007 at 9:06 am
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