In This Corner Yahoo, In The Opposite Corner Google

Google and Yahoo are going at it over the design of an ad for IE7 on their respective sites. In the corner for Yahoo is Jeremy Zawodny. In the opposite corner is Google's Matt Cutts. In the middle are numerous tech bloggers.

Zawodny started it when he proclaimed on December 11, 2006: "Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo." Cutts responded with a post headlined "IE7 promo page" and a references to Google page layouts Yahoo allegedly used "without attribution."

Cutts said, "I was going to read some Penny Arcade, but Robert Scoble invoked me." Scoble, a VP at PodTech and a former Microsoft technical evangelist, said "There’s a whole lot of copying going on…Yahoo copies Google.

If you are interested in this inconsequential spat, TechMeme, which I read daily, has tracked blog posts surrounding it. So has Tailrank.  However, one of the best accounts I've read is WebProNews staff writer David A. Utter's December 12, 2006, post headlined "Yahoo, Google Bloggers Snipe Over Copying."

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NOTE: This post can also be found at The Technology Free Press, my tech blog.