April 27, 2007

Welcome to the new Yahoo AOL

Written by: Travis  |  Category: Entreprenews

This is either what happens when you spend too much time analyzing the competition, or if your April Fool’s prank is a few weeks behind schedule.

Yahoo’s original AOL’s clone

Digg could take what Calacanis did with Netscape as a compliment, but this is just asking for a lawsuit.

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11 Comments

  1. Aaron said on April 27, 2007...

    This is exactly why AOL continues to fail. They don’t have an original idea in their head. Time Warner has not been able to turn them around and needs to cut them loose.

  2. bwh2 said on April 27, 2007...

    that is the most flagrant rip i have ever seen. AOL should be embarrassed.

  3. Ryan Christensen said on April 27, 2007...

    It’s almost absurd how similar some of the elements are. Vertical gradients in the left navigation, and so on.

    I’d really love to hear what was going through everyone’s heads when this was being produced…

  4. Aaron said on April 27, 2007...

    I don’t know about flagrant rip off but yeah it’s really similar. They just didn’t attempt to come up with something they could call original. It is different but I would definitely have to say it was heavily inspired by Yahoo.

    But I guess they say imitation is the biggest form of flattery and AOL is trying to become and Portal and Yahoo does it best.

  5. Ross Hill from Thrive said on April 27, 2007...

    Why am I not surprised?

    What good stuff has come from AOL? (serious question)

  6. Pawan Sahay said on April 29, 2007...

    AOL sucks big time!!

  7. Phil said on April 30, 2007...

    I saw this the other day on techcrunch or somewhere, I was absolutely shocked that they would let this even get as far as public beta. It basically just shouts “Hey AOL is just a bunch of un-original asses and we really think Yahoo is better than us!”

    I mean please, this is so ridiculous. If I was the lead designer at Yahoo! I would be pissed.

  8. MotorsportBabesAU said on April 30, 2007...

    Ha ha thats great. The worst part of it is how they almost exactly copied the menus colour shading! I would be surprised if you looked through the code and found a “coppyright yahoo” in there somewhere!

  9. Travis said on April 30, 2007...

    To add to this, AOL isn’t just testing a beta for the US. The AOL Canada page is now the Yahoo clone:

    www.AOL.ca

    What a shame.

  10. Shane said on May 2, 2007...

    Hey, they’re just paying Yahoo! back for copying Google’s search results. It’s a vicious cycle ;)

  11. Ilya Lobanov said on May 3, 2007...

    If I was the lead designer at Yahoo! I would be on the floor laughing my ass off. It’s really amusing when people try to “flatter” you this way.

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