Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!? from Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny makes a pretty damning case against Google for blatantly ripping off Yahoo's Internet Explorer 7 promo copy. Yahoo offers a custom version of IE7 via a pitch page you'll see here. Google appears to have launched its own pitch page yesterday, one that was amazingly similar in look and feel to Yahoo's. Jeremy has the side-by-side photos of how the pages looked. Google's page has since changed. In many places, the copy was either identical or the word Yahoo was simply swapped for Google. At best, I thought perhaps Google was using some [...]

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Yahoo added a "more" button that seems to be a DHTML or CSS contextual drop down menu with more search options to the inner search pages. So if you do a search on gary price at Yahoo Search (he tipped me off to this), you will notice next to the options above the search box is a more link with an arrow down. Clicking on that gives you more search options, here is a picture. [...]

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