Comments on: AOL One Step Behind Again: New Home Page Identical To Yahoo

By: Finally a Yahoo Clone

Finally a Yahoo Clone — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:31:52 +0000

[...] Have you ever seen a yahoo clone, its here. AOL has given a web2.0 look to its portal, but it looks like they have redesigned their site based on yahoo home page. Found via Techcrunch [...]

By: » AOL copies Yahoo

» AOL copies Yahoo — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:44:07 +0000

[...] Another internet giant has copied another recently, when AOL copied Yahoo’s homepage layout. (via) [...]

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TECHGEEK.com.au : Coyping by Design — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:46:08 +0000

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By: Simply my Blog » Blog Archive » del.zio.si X lafra [mag1]: AOL copia Yahoo, il mestiere di Pandemia e Eco Label

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:18:23 +0000

[...] AOL One Step Behind Again: New Home Page Identical To Yahoo Articolo di TechCrunch dove si accusa AOL di aver fatto ancora una volta un passo indietro avendo copiato Yahoo nella realizzazione della sua nuova homepage [...]

By: AOL To Add Third Party Services To AOL.COM - Leaked Screenshots | aboutCREATION

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:27:43 +0000

[...] their home pages every year or so, and AOL is no exception – a little over a year ago they were roundly criticized for copying much of the look and feel of [...]

By: AOL To Add Third Party Services To AOL.COM - Leaked Screenshots

AOL To Add Third Party Services To AOL.COM - Leaked Screenshots — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:58:57 +0000

[...] their home pages every year or so, and AOL is no exception – a little over a year ago they were roundly criticized for copying much of the look and feel of Yahoo.com [...]

By: » It Was Just Inspiration, Right? | Bainbridge Studios

» It Was Just Inspiration, Right? | Bainbridge Studios — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:39:33 +0000

[...] TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, among others, is reporting on the striking similarities between the new Beta version of AOL’s web portal and Yahoo!’s homepage. For all intents and purposes, the two are one and the same. The new AOL layout, first introduced by AOL Senior Product Manager Frank Gruber, is apparently even referred to by many at AOL as “the Yahoo portal.” [...]

By: genuina.net » Blog Archive » Yahoo! vs Aol.com

genuina.net » Blog Archive » Yahoo! vs Aol.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:55:42 +0000

[...] lo que estuve leyendo un artículo en TechCrunch, AOL esta probando una versión beta de lo que sería su nuevo portal de contenidos, lo simpático [...]

By: Why Did AOL Rip Yahoo Off? - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum - Internet Marketing Webmaster SEO Forum

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:56:15 +0000

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By: DIGITALISTIC » Blog Archive » 3 Must-Haves for a Successfull Web Venture

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:53:25 +0000

[...] As stated above all code can be copied, all features can be copied and all designs can be copied (as AOL did with Yahoo’s design). But only things that already exists and are released can be copied easily. To copy your plans and [...]

By: JC

JC — Thu, 10 May 2007 10:37:29 +0000

As a former AOL employee and responsible for the client home page for 5 years, I just can say that I’m horrified. AOL has such a strenght in building HP…

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Life Mashup » Flickr and PicasaWeb Slideshow: Find the Differences — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:33:38 +0000

[...] chapter in the rip-off series: First it was the Homepage, then the Web Messenger and now it’s time for a [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:05:13 +0000

Wow – total copy of Yahoo…

What’s all this garbage of Yahoo buying AOL. AOL is a waste of money. Yahoo is cash flow positive and doesn’t need AOL. Not to mention that Google owns 5% of AOL… so how would that work?! Maybe Google wants to buy both? HAHA! Get real.

By: Eric Paz

Eric Paz — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:10:11 +0000

With both companies doing failry lousy these days, ia m not surprised. AOL had been dog for many years now. They lost the browser battle after buying Netscape, everything they touch is turning into poo.

AOL Sucks!!!

By: Pissedoffaoler

Pissedoffaoler — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:47:52 +0000

Make no mistake, this is ALL Ron Grant’s doing. He directed the portal team to copy Yahoo. Micromanagement down to the pixel. This is the first of many products that will be clones of their competitors. Check out AOL’s India portal search page.

http://search.a...it=true&cr=

Look like any other search results page you know? Word is this will be rolled out to U.S. search as well soon.

At least David Gang – previously at AOL, recently canned from WebMD – would listen to people who wrked for him, even if he could be dictatorial at times. Ron doesn’t.

AOLers are pissed. Who wants to work for a company where the COO is this far in the weeds?

There are inovative people in the trenches at AOL. Check out the blogs of John Panzer, Kevin Lawver, Rocky Agrawal and Frank Gruber for a few.

Instead of innovating, management continues to piss away money on shit like OpenRide and building yet another new client no one will use.

By: Aol’un yeni Yahoo Klonu beta Web sitesi | Livetr.org

Aol’un yeni Yahoo Klonu beta Web sitesi | Livetr.org — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:36:59 +0000

[...] tadındaki son beta sürümü olan Sayfası Yahoo‘nun birebir kopyası olduğu söyleniyor *. Bunu zaten resime bakarakta anlayabilirsiniz. Sizce Bir kullanıcı olarak bu tür klon [...]

By: AOL rip Yahoo! at hmmhuh

AOL rip Yahoo! at hmmhuh — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:17:38 +0000

[...] others have suggested the homepage bears striking similarities with the homepage of Yahoo, which was [...]

By: oleq's jogger

oleq's jogger — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:46:00 +0000

Déjà vu?…

Po co tworzyć coś nowego, skoro wszystko jest już gotowe? Ta filozofia chyba zbyt głęboko trafiła do serc webmasterów AOL, tworzących wersję beta3 nowego designu strony głównej. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że internauci zobaczą wkrótc[…..

By: sandiman

sandiman — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:38:10 +0000

The surprising thing about this article is that the author seems to be agreeing that something within the AOL product demos he says he saw was impressive. Then he observes that AOL needs a category killer to give it street cred. Sounds like, AOL at least, are hoping they have a category killer. Now if that turned out to be the case, that they actually had something genuinely strong & distinctive at the products level that helped revive their street cred, the decision to play it copycat safe on the portal design would become a more understandable extension of ‘executing on the basics’.

By: InnovationNotImitation

InnovationNotImitation — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:28:26 +0000

So, you condone stealing then? Besides, the elements Yahoo “borrowed” from AOL last round was minimal at best. This is pixel for pixel duplication! Your defensive posture reaks of being on “the team.” If 98% of the people are bashing, something’s wrong with the picture, no?

You call AOL ripping a 10-month old portal progression? I hope you aren’t in any form of business that has a bottom line. That’s counter-competetive and anti-creative. And in the eyes of advertisers and consumers, a failure to push the medium forward. Essentially the polar opposite of progression.

Some of us posting here are likely to be creatives responding in protest, so your UE argument is without base. I personally have over a decade in UI and just because there are best practices doesn’t mean there isn’t room for innovation. If we all copied each other, there would be NO progression, ever.

Nielsen is a idiot. He thinks everything should look like Craigslist. He’s knocked progressive technologies that have become the standard; Flash, AJAX, etc.

People aren’t bashing AOL here. They’re bashing a poor execu-decision, one that will cost them in morale, reputation and perhaps even financially.

By: URMissingTheObvious

URMissingTheObvious — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:27:32 +0000

It is funny how 98% of the people here are bashing AOL for copying Yahoo!. There have been at least 2 other posts that point this out but since it seems that when someone new posts they haven’t read the entire thread.

9 months ago aol.com was launched as a portal. The design was nothing like Yahoos!. A few months later Yahoo! launches their new portal. The design is very similar (some would say that they copied the design) to the aol.com design. Then Yahoo! launches are revised version of their portal (rev 2). When aol.com launches the rev 2 of their portal everyone screams AOL COPIED YAHOO!.

As a previous poster it is just a natural progression of the website that aol.com launched first.

The second point is that most of you obviously have no training in user interfaces. There is a reason that most sites use a top nav for relevant links, tabs for multiples instances of similar data etc. It is what we are users are conditioned to use. If the top nav was on the bottom (below the fold) and instead of tabs it was just a bunch of drop-downs, the user experience would suck. Look up Jakob Nielsen on the web for more information on consistent user design.

AOL bashing for bashings sake is just juvenile. And really, how many of you use the Yahoo! portal?

By: Poshie

Poshie — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:10:52 +0000

So we will have some kind of ISO standard for pages ?

By: Libor

Libor — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:53:31 +0000

I like AOLs design more, its clearer, simpler & somewhat and easier readable.

E.g. the tabs “News / Finance / Entertainment / Video” cover much more diverse interest, than Yahoos tabs “News / World / Local / Video”.

Management decisions are always ugly and sometimes only sexy, so the AOL developers have still done a good job.

By: Vasu Chikkatur Murthy

Vasu Chikkatur Murthy — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:30:33 +0000

Hey
AOL behind Yahoo and copying? No wonder. Both are managed by Indian Software Engineers. As a country, we are specialists in copying and copyright is a birthright. We copy from Engish to Hindi movie to Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and so many other language movies time and again.

So What’s big deal in AOL copying Yahoo………….

Afterall, its Indian expertise in different formats

By: David Ward

David Ward — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:04:31 +0000

I think other readers have said it and I agree, we are conditioned to read web pages in a certain way and the big boys are all doing what they can to capitalize on this. I rarely visit any of these sites as I get my news via rss for the most part and use the search bar in Firefox to conduct pretty much any search I need to make so no need to visit Yahoo, AOL, MSN or the others. AOL is dying a slow death…in my opinion.