All That I Know (About Technology) » Website Redesign http://www.allthatiknow.com Tomer Tishgarten's Professional Blog on Technology and Marketing Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:56:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Yahoo wants to be Google http://www.allthatiknow.com/2007/10/yahoo-wants-to-be-google/ http://www.allthatiknow.com/2007/10/yahoo-wants-to-be-google/#comments Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:51:03 +0000 Tomer Tishgarten http://www.allthatiknow.com/2007/10/yahoo-wants-to-be-google/ I was meeting this week with one of my co-workers and we found that we needed to look at a web page. So, she opened Internet Explorer browser and started to enter an address but I quickly stopped her because I saw this:

Yahoo Home Page Modified

If you don’t believe me, you should try the modified Yahoo Home page URL for yourself. It seems interesting because it reminds of another, slighly more popular search engine called Google:

Google homepage

If you look closely, you will notice the following similarities:

  • Both use a minimalistic page design
  • Both have links to Web, Images, and Videos; the remaining links are differnet
  • Both embed their logo which serves as the primary way to identify which search engine you are using

This just strengthens my belief that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, considering the comScore revealed this week that Google had a 60% share of worldwide searches in August 2007 in comparison to Yahoo’s 14% share — that is a 4 fold greater share!

Yahoo definitely has some catching up to do regardless of how it looks.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The modified Yahoo home page is also available at www.search.yahoo.com. Additionally, MSN has joined the party. (Thank you to Webdosfera.com for pointing this out).

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