Google's X Files Vanish

An anonymous reader writes "News.com reports that Google's latest technology experiment paid tribute to Apple Computer, but the Mac OS X-themed version of the search king's Web site was taken down a day after its debut. Though that particular page was taken down, there is a screenshot here displaying how the icons were magnified as the mouse hovered over them."

Comments

Flamebait?

[ta bu shi da yu]

I'm merely expressing my opinion that Apple is a particularly stupid company for stopping a website from paying homage to their product. It's not like they are:

a. taking away any potential earnings
b. using the same technology: that is, Google is a website and Apple's theme is a Window Manager
c. It's has elements of transformation of Apple's idea - that is the webpage design was a way of navigating Google and not the traditional means of navigating an operating system.

If anything, this should be allowed under fair use laws in the United States. The only thing not going for it is that Google is not a non-profit organisation.

Anyway, my original point stands: Apple sucks for doing this.