The Google power trio of design colors–blue, green, and black–appear to have been integrated into the Bloglines “add a blog” interface. Here’s a screenshot of the Bloglines feed selection page:

Now, compare this to a default Google ad, in their Adsense preview:

To me it’s quite obvious that Bloglines, the Web 2.0 darling which enabled users everywhere to hook into RSS, is deliberately trying to copy Google’s clean colors and interface. Before, their “choose a feed” page was drab, bland, and undistinguished. Now, it’s sharp and classy; but it looks like Google.

Because I haven’t done this in a while, and it’s technically interesting, here’s the digg link. Digg it if it’s good; what I want is to see whether anyone’s seen the piracy of the Google colors anywhere else.

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