And Google copied the search engine from many others before it.
Ebay wasn't the first Auction site. Amazon wasn't the first site to sell books. etc. etc.
So Andrew Dumont, let me get something straight.
It's not alright for sites to copy ideas but it is perfectly alright for you to copy images/tables from the economist, put them on your site/blog and pass them off as your own?
Google didn't copy the search engine. They reinvented it. Amazon didn't copy the businesses and websites of other booksellers. They came up with a whole new approach.
Get real Tnuc. There is a big, big different from using a small image from another site, and coping a whole site, it's layout, colour scheme, functionality, and even using a similar domain/brand name.
There's a difference between copying piece by piece and re-invention, as wpietri points out.
You're right, I should have linked directly to the Economist from the image -- updated. There's a source denoted in the bottom left corner of the image, thought that would suffice.
I'm not in the traffic business, I'm just interested in the trends of the industry.
Ebay wasn't the first Auction site. Amazon wasn't the first site to sell books. etc. etc.
So Andrew Dumont, let me get something straight.
It's not alright for sites to copy ideas but it is perfectly alright for you to copy images/tables from the economist, put them on your site/blog and pass them off as your own?
Link to original economist article; http://www.economist.com/node/21525394