Spot the Difference: Someone ‘borrowed’ our website design and all the images and logos!!!!

I saw some weird search terms on Google Analytics last night about taxi journeys and then saw that there were some incoming links coming from a taxi site in the United States – and there was my website staring me back from my computer screen.  Perhaps my business was growing so fast that I didn’t even know that we’d launched in the United States. Check it out here and here which then link to here at the bottom of the page. And just to confuse you all, here is our website.

Unfortunately, this was not quite the case! Most people we chat to think we have a really nice website – clearly whoever did this thought so also!!!! I realise that imitation is the sincerest (or highest) form of flattery, but blatantly copying our imagery and logo really takes things to a new level – I particularly like that whomever did it even left in the imagery for Heathrow Express and Gatwick Express on the front page and a lot of the web copy remains the same!

Spot the difference – the real one is on the right, or is it the left – errrrr

         

The web copy is almost the same and I like how they’ve kept in some quick facts on the right hand side – perhaps it could include quick tips about the best ways to ‘borrow’ someone else’s website! Again, the real one is on the top (or left)…

         

And I like what they’ve done with our logo also!

     The real one is on the left!  

 

It was funny to read some posts on this such as webleeddesign and airbag and I did feel particularly sorry for Lingo24 who had something similar happen to them.

Am sure the DCMA and WIPO say something about this kind of stuff – it really is a bit naughty.