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by jmharvey 4738 days ago
Styles, like fashion, follow trends. But the similarities on these sites go well beyond just similar trends, especially once you're beyond the main page. The copy on the "Services" page is probably the most damning:

  We provide a wide array of software design and development
  services -- from Mobile applications and Web applications
  to User interface design, Quality assurance and Digital
  Strategy -- we're a trusted partner helping you develop
  your business.
vs

  We provide a wide array of Award Winning design and
  development services -- from Digital Strategy, QA and UX
  Design to iOS, Android, and Facebook Apps, Responsive
  Mobile Enhanced Websites, Ecommerce and Business
  Automation Tools -- we're your trusted partner in Digital.
I don't think anyone honestly believes those sentences were written independently of each other. Look at them in their context on the page, and the plausibility of coincidental design similarity goes even further out the window. This was clearly a copy/paste/edit job.
2 comments

That's not good enough; it's too common. Sentence structure can't be copyrighted, just as common design elements can't be copyrighted. Show us HTML or CSS blocks that are exactly the same or slightly tweaked on both websites.
It's not "damning" because that sentence structure, in particular, can't be copyrighted. It's "damning" because it is one very obvious part of a larger whole which, compounded, make it very unlikely that these two sites were developed independently. You could argue that Kintek changed it just enough to make it not plagiarism or copyright violation, but that's not exactly the point.
Hash both the images that are used to create that curved hero unit thing they both have. They both come out as e6a486ac74a59aaa1abefec33de40c55
Have you even looked at them? The top banner has rectangular links that are the same, as do the 3-column icons and the footer.
By "damning", are you referring to the parroting of the silly use of capital letters?