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AOL: More Beta Blues?

BY Ellen McGirtWed May 2, 2007

Some Fast food for thought: One of my favorite Internet experts (and fellow FC'er) pointed out a striking similarity between AOL.com's new beta homepage and Yahoo's. It does seem to be a remarkable...homage. (Check out our friends at Techcrunch
for some pointed commentary on the matter.) So how has innovation in web design become an afterthought for a company of AOL's size? Does being big necessarily mean that you are doomed to simply chase the competition? Will the entire web look the same one day?

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Technology, internet + web, Yahoo! Inc., AOL LLC, TechCrunch.com, Science and Technology, Graphic Design


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May 3, 2007 at 5:25pm by Ankush

Amazing!
Its almost as if the designers from both the companies stumbled across the same 'free third party website template' and decided to use it ;-)

May 4, 2007 at 5:29am by Me

It is quite interesting, but also the german portal Web.de - looks like Yahoo a lot. And it was done long before AOL redesigned their home page. Here is the link: web.de