It's a meltdown of PageRank 9 proportions, as Jeremy Zawodny and Matt Cutts (of Yahoo and Google, respectively, but you knew that) took shots at each other's corporate masters over strikingly similar pages touting Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7.
blog, where he pointed out the page Yahoo created to promote a Yahoo-optimized IE7 distribution had been copied by Google: 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 wasn't just a template that Microsoft gave to all partners. It's not. A few hours later, Zawodny updated his blog to note how Google had made some changes to decided that if Yahoo needed to extract a
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