Comments on: OMG, How Tacky!

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:48:22 +0000

Folks, look at the sites and judge for yourself. If you don’t agree that the similarity is deliberate and tacky, you don’t agree. I’m not here (any longer) to argue with you, just to draw attention so that folks can judge for themselves. It is what it is.

By: CasperTG

CasperTG — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:04:38 +0000

Boycott? I’ve been boycotting Yahoo since they ruined Adult Groups by taking them out of their groups search engine.
Yahoo have always steamrolled over people and demonstrated that they might have been the first big internet company, but they don’t UNDERSTAND the internet.

By: Lurking

Lurking — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:30:38 +0000

The only similarity I see is the “OMG” part of each blog’s name. Unoriginal on Yahoo’s part, but it’s not a blatant rip off.

Had I accidentally stumbled across both sites, I doubt I would have made the connection between the two.

By: bons

bons — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:24:43 +0000

I claim that [link deleted] and [link deleted] have a lot more in common than [link deleted] and [link deleted].

Links left column, ads right column, nude photos center. Similar subject matter and names. Should we be upset about this or are the two sites different enough that we just don’t care?

And what exactly is the theme to omgblog? When you say yahoo copied the theme, what theme did they copy, the look and feel, the subject matter, what? I’m not understanding this. Should we be expecting yahoo to have photos of a cute cat with it’s head in a jar sometime soon?

By: Bacchus

Bacchus — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:29:18 +0000

I’m laughing here TMZ. The name and the theme are pretty much the defining characteristics of a blog. So, you don’t see anything similar, except for the name and the theme? Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’m saying, too. I’d argue that starting a blog about the same theme, and picking roughly the same name, is enough to warrant derision.

We’re in agreement about legalities, that was never my point. My point was that this is reprehensible, not illegal.

By: kinkerbelle

kinkerbelle — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:31:40 +0000

Yes Sir, i agree. and commenting about it .. as it was ordered.
Though, sometimes imitation is the best form of flattery, that makes no one any money. i say we boycott! *coughs

By: Tmz. Elgie

Tmz. Elgie — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:49:06 +0000

Notwithstanding that it’s apparently “obvious,” I don’t see it. The layout is different, the colours are different (Pink and blue on black = pink and grey on bright orange? Really?), the fonts are different, and the content is only similar in a broadly thematic way.

If not for the name, I doubt anyone would have consciously drawn any connection at all between the original OMG Blog and Yahoo’s thing. Frank would be wise to let this go; whatever overlap there may be, it’s most likely not provable to any legal standard.