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I worked at a company where our web site was copied by a competitor entering the same domain. They copied the look of the site but also copied the Google Analytics tag as well. We found out about them because their page views showed up in our analytics.
Same experience here. The guy even hotlinked our Javascript files. Little did he know that we could have controlled his website from where we were.
Hah, I just finished (?) dealing with a site that literally just scraped our entire Education Industry news site -- all pages -- using some sort of "save for offline" tool and then did a find/replace to change the name and redrew the logos in what might have been MS Paint. They were shopping the site to ad networks. Maybe they thought they could out-SEO us and then monetize the traffic? Or it was some sort of click f…
Good luck with the hosting company.
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That's a great story about Nelotsky, I hadn't heard that before. For those interested, these fake entries to catch copyright infringement are commonly referred to as "Mountweazels". They are common in maps (fake towns, roads) and dictionaries (fake words and definitions). You can read more on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
Also catching on in celebrity baby photos: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/kim-karda...
http://kintek.com.au/blog/web-design-plagerism-what-should-y...
Marketers take note. This link could also be titled "How to properly deal with plagiarism of your own website." Acting like a good sport with an even better sense of humor will win you many customers.
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Did nobody asking this question look at this screenshot: http://www.infinum.co/system/uploads/2013-06/kintek/kintek-f... Look at the area immediately below the fold. It's one of the most blatant examples of plagiarism I've ever seen. It's arguably worse than simple wholesale lifting of css, since they've carefully and deliberately redrawn distinctive design elements, and lifted half the copy as well And this is a med…
Um, did you know that "awards" in the software industry are a sort of marketing gray area where companies pay a lot for a submission to some "organization" who then hands out "awards" and "nomiations" that can be advertized on websites?
Hell, I kept getting spam regarding assorted awards my software "won" simply because I provided some sort of XML file indicating download details.
am I the only one who doesnt find the sites that similar after all? Or to put it another way - neither of them seem particularly unique (fixed header, slider on top, broad sections and large footer) compared to many marketing sites these days?
Nope, I'm with you. I've seen much more obvious plagiarisms. Although it's obvious that Kintek were more than a little inspired by infinum, and indeed some items look copied as is except the color change, the rest looks like any other bootstrap / grid based marketing site template. They might have pushed the "inspiration" part to the limit, and might deserve the post for not being too original, but I'm sure you can f…
then from the article they link an early mockup of the clone site, it says right there "100+ projects"
You followed pretty standard layout designs that are simply attributed to the responsive web revolution.
Your site uses the stereotypical responsive website layout. One could even say you stole your design from 1000's of other websites before you.
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Um, did you know that "awards" in the software industry are a sort of marketing gray area where companies pay a lot for a submission to some "organization" who then hands out "awards" and "nomiations" that can be advertized on websites?
...where companies pay a lot ... Hell, I kept getting spam regarding assorted awards my software "won" simply because I provided some sort of XML file indicating download details.
(http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards...)
> I put out a new product a couple of weeks ago. This new product has so far won 16 different awards and recommendations from software download sites. Some of them even emailed me messages of encouragement such as “Great job, we’re really impressed!”. I should be delighted at this recognition of the quality of my software, except that the ‘software’ doesn’t even run. This is hardly surprising when you consider that it is just a text file with the words “this program does nothing at all” repeated a few times and then renamed as an .exe. The PAD file that described the software contains the description “This program does nothing at all”.