http://www.qq.com

since Google Chrome is copying from things all over the place, did they copy their logo from what Tecent's QQ.com has been using for years?

Its a just a circle of colours. I'd be saying coincidence.

My first thought was a "it looks like Simon Says", but that qq.com looks even more spot on... we're going to have to invent more shapes and colours, or we're going to run out of logos!

coincidence

eh doesnt look all that similar.

Looks similar but it's clearly not the same.

Not even close.

!!! i think it looks like that little robot that follows you in Halo...the arbitor or something like that

Blue in the middle with the same three colours swirling round it... how can on Earth can you claim that's "not even close"? It's not ripping it off because it's incredibly generic but people here are in denial to say it's not similar.

I say it's not close because if you think Google are ripping off these colors in a logo from QQ.com then you must go back and say that QQ (and, in turn, Google) are actually ripping it off from Microsoft with the Office logo.

Bottom line: It's essentially a generic logo (Chrome's). And a horribly ugly one at that.

Hey I have an idea! Quit the Google bashing.

this is what i was talking about...sorta resembles it..no?

Robot thing

- leads a wikipedia pic

That's completely missing the point. You said it's "not even close", which is patently wrong as it is VERY similar. It doesn't matter whether or not QQ ripped it from anywhere else as that is a completely separate issue - I already said it was generic, so that's a moot point as well. Honestly, can't people accept when they're wrong on the internet? It seems everyone has to defend their inaccurate statements in order to save face.

No.

actually, QQ.com's logo is nothing like Office logo. One is round with one color at the center, the other is rectangular with nothing at the center. The only thing similar is that they both have four colors, but the shapes are completely different.

Chrome's logo, on the other hand, shares an astounding similarity with the QQ.com logo, both in color AND shape. They are both three colors (red, yellow, green clock-wise) in a circle with blue at the center. actually if you turn the QQ.com logo's outer colors clock-wise 180 degree, enlarge them, you get almost the exact Chrome logo

I'm not saying they have really stolen it from QQ.com, but the similarity is quite huge, and personally I haven't encountered another logo with similar color arrangement and shape, so I doubt it's really that "generic"

Oh please, get a life.

Google has always had those four colors and they've implemented them on the design.

Also, if you can take a moment to notice the difference between the two.

That's like saying the song "Adam's Song" is a ripoff of Metallica's, "One". Just because of a similar (if you play guitar you'd see the similarity) intro riff.

everyone always had those four colors, but not many implement them in this shape.

There are of course differences, for example what I have mentioned in the previous post, you need to rotate the colors clock-wise 180 degrees for them to match the positions. If there were no difference between the two, then it would be a big "Google Chrome STEAL logo from QQ.com!!!!" instead of the current title

Also, if you really had a life yourself, you would not take a moment to tell people to get a life here

LMAO, look like the ultimately ub3r h4x0r m4st3rb4ll that can catch any pokemons.

damn...you stole the font i am using...now im mad

nope.

not close.

I think people are just looking for justification to sue Google for something.

Actually, you misunderstood me. When I said "not even close" I wasn't commenting on the similarities of the logos, I was talking about how it's not even close to the truth of how Google stole their logo idea from QQ. Saying something like that is ridiculous. Bad choice of words on my part in retrospect, hopefully it's clearer now...



Exactly, that was my point. Is that I really don't think it was stolen from QQ.com... but who knows, maybe there's just an unimaginative intern at Google's graphics dept.

Regardless, I still say it's a horrid logo. I actually prefer QQ.com's logo

It's conceptually close but not artistically close. The Chrome logo is conceptually close to a lot of things (including Simon and Pokemon balls).

Maybe the Pokeball logo is Google's way of telling us we're their pets?

when i first saw it, did look like something i've seen before

That logo concept is generic by now, there's no point in arguing who stole it from whom and who came up with it first.

It is pretty hard not to have a logo resemble something else now-a-days. There are billions of webpages and hundreds of thousands of companies in the U.S. alone. It is very, very hard to come up with something that is completely unique.

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Generic colours in a circle, has been on I'm sure hundreds of other designs are similar in some shape or form too, and Google have used those colours for years and years.
Welcome to the internet, lots of things look like lots of other things.

omgwtf its truez pokemonz are t3h realz!

Why not we just play Simon Says he he.

Lol the guy who designed this logo probably thought he was being so original... Wait 'till he reads this thread.

Design any icon, someone can probably find on on the internetz that looks nearly the same.

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well, if the logo is really so "generic" like many people here says, then I propose a challenge, find another logo other than Chrome and QQ.com that meets the following criteria :

1) have red, yellow and green colors following each other to form a circle (and I'll loosen the restriction a bit, so it does not have to be red, yellow and green in clockwise arrangement like Chrome and QQ.com, you can have red, green, yellow in clockwise too)

2) have something of a blue color in the center.

Personally I haven't see another logo look like that, so I'd like to see how generic it really is

Similar but not enough to think anything of it.