Comments on: Google Copies Yahoo’s IE7 Page; Originality War Breaks Out! http://searchengineland.com/google-copies-yahoos-ie7-page-originality-war-breaks-out-10022 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brokerblogger http://searchengineland.com/google-copies-yahoos-ie7-page-originality-war-breaks-out-10022/comment-page-1#comment-140 Brokerblogger Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:38:35 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-copies-yahoos-ie7-page-originality-war-breaks-out-10022.php#comment-140 IMO, this is "much ado about nothing" unless copyright or patent laws have been broken. Rather than "finger pointing" why doesn't everybody realize that "imitation is the most sincere form of flattery". An analogy can be made to Lexus copying many stying cues from Mercedes over the years, and Merecedes copying the softer leather interior cues from Lexus many years back. What a better search world it would be if all the search engines had smaller "competitive egos", and greater cooperative mindsets to more quickly achieve greater relevant SERP results based on user intent. IMO, this is “much ado about nothing” unless copyright or patent laws have been broken. Rather than “finger pointing” why doesn’t everybody realize that “imitation is the most sincere form of flattery”. An analogy can be made to Lexus copying many stying cues from Mercedes over the years, and Merecedes copying the softer leather interior cues from Lexus many years back.

What a better search world it would be if all the search engines had smaller “competitive egos”, and greater cooperative mindsets to more quickly achieve greater relevant SERP results based on user intent.

]]> By: Sandpetra http://searchengineland.com/google-copies-yahoos-ie7-page-originality-war-breaks-out-10022/comment-page-1#comment-139 Sandpetra Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:01:28 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-copies-yahoos-ie7-page-originality-war-breaks-out-10022.php#comment-139 How's that for some duplicate content! How’s that for some duplicate content!

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