Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!?

I'm not sure if this is stupidity, laziness, or a mix of both, but check this out.

Back when IE7 launched, Yahoo! created a customized version and began to market it

to our existing IE users. The "splash page" looked like this:

Today it seems that Google has similar intentions. So similar, that they decided to basically copy our page and slightly Googlify it. If you look, the design, layout, and most of the text are the same!

WTF is that about?

Was some product marketing person so uninspired that he or she decided it was "good enough" to just copy us?

Seriously, click those images and look at the full-sized versions. They're remarkably similar. And I've checked with our PR group to make sure that this was just a template that Microsoft gave to all partners. It's not.

Yikes. Even the toolbar in the Google version of the picture has bits of Yahoo still in it.

Source: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008122.html

Can this really be true, If it is shame on google :(

Edit: well I did more digging and this is the original image from the google site found at http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie7/getie7.gif

Now check out the zoomed in version of that image

Still not convinced look at this

Now all we need to check is that yahoos site came fist.

Yup a very sad day for google