Decided to watch a funny segment on the News about Roldugin just for fun. They threw everything together, so it’s worth watching for entertainment. In one of the frames, they showed a surprisingly familiar website. I looked closer – and it was just a placeholder with Google ads. It’s portrayed in the segment as the website of US Investigations Services (USIS) – a company specializing in the analysis of biographical data of candidates for work in governmental structures. It is known for having vetted Edward Snowden before hiring him to the CIA. Also, it is known for being located 7 minutes from my house. The company has since gone under, but we are talking about its logo here.
In the original segment by Vesti, the USIS site was shown with a standard placeholder logo used by Network Solutions. I checked archive.org to see what the page looked like a few years ago – and there I found a little blue logo. The exact same logo, pixel-for-pixel, with the same colors and shades, is used by the British company Kroll OnTrack. Established in 1985, it employs several thousand people. Look – I placed that site to the right of the Vesti screenshot, and I positioned the logos one below the other.
And here’s an interesting question: how can a large company in England and a large quasi-governmental company in the USA have identical logos? Obviously, there’s nothing particularly behind it, just a coincidence that they happened to draw the same ones, it happens.
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