Why Did AOL Rip Yahoo Off?

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I don't use Aol.com ever, but I accidentally went to it today, and was seriously blown away....

AOL.com looks EXACTLY like fuckin Yahoo.com...

Here's a side-by-side I made to prove the point:

aolyahoo.jpg


WTF?

They even have the same fuckin ad in the same spot. I took the screenshots like 1 minute apart, so they're even rotating at the same intervals.


The only thing I could think of is that Google is using AOL as their puppet to grab more of the portal market share.... so I circled the Google logo.

Either way, it's really creepy to see a company of this size totally fucking copycat their DIRECT COMPETITOR.

Does anyone have any idea what the hell is going on with that?
 


wtf aol is still around?

anyways.. yea that's really messed up for aol to do that. maybe the coding is even the same!
 
My 'Conspiracy' Theory

I have the feeling it's not as innocent as they'd like you to believe....

I mean come on.. AOL = Godfather of "users' Internet**", they don't need to 'steal' design do they?

Here's what I think:

AOL is cooking something up with Google.

Why?

More fucking power.

What better way to push your competitor out of first place (I think Yahoo is #1 in portals) than to team up with a top competitor, make them lose face in the 'biz/tech/other communities' with a duped site , attract Yahoo sheeple users, then...

BAM!

Google steps in to save the day and buys AOL...

Game Over.


** By users' Internet, I mean your grandma and people who couldn't get online without AOL.
 
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