Ordinarily I’d shrug and pass this one by, but after reading Jason Calacanis’ gloat about a remark Google’s Matt Cutts wrote about devaluing PayPerPost blogs’ page ranks, this is too good to pass by.

I doubt that Google The Corporation gave an Official Blessing to this obvious knockoff of Yahoo!s IE 7 toolbar upgrade page. Jeremy Zawodny over at Yahoo attributes it to laziness, stupidity or a mix of both.

Before Google starts threatening to drop page rank, they’d better clean up their own ranks.

Update: Matt Cutts responds with examples of extreme similarities between Google’s text ad design and Yahoo’s. Maybe they should all just merge.

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