Put this one in the “backfire” category:

“Google has released a customized version of Internet Explorer 7 that uses Google as the default search engine and provides users with the Google Toolbar and a Google homepage they can personalize. Perhaps not exactly what Microsoft intended when they released the Internet Explorer Administration Kit, which allows developers to customize IE.”

If you have been reading the online news, you might remember that Yahoo already had a customized IE7 of their own, in fact, they even beat Microsoft to the release of the browser. But what you probably won’t expect is that Google blatantly copied Yahoo’s own customized IE7 page, as Jeremy Zawodny points out. The IE7: Google version has since then been altered, but this just goes to show that no company, even one as “loved” as Google, is as innocent as it may seem.

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