Fake Notice Posted on Google Blog
A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to post a bogus notice on the Google Blog Saturday, claiming Google Inc. discontinued its AdWords click-to-call test with eBay Inc. The bug was fixed and fake notice promptly removed from the site, according to a Google blog post that appeared late Sunday.
The click-to-call test is “progressing on schedule, and we’re pleased with the results thus far,” the new post from Google reads.
The fake post headline said “Google Click-to-Call project cancelled.” The copy went on to explain: “Google has decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project. The project has been in the media on last days because of the notice of Google agreement with eBay. We finally consider click-to-call agreement with eBay a monopolistic approach that would damage small companies in the CRM area.”
Google began testing the service in November 2005, and later signed a multiyear contract with eBay for service through its Internet telephony.
Google and eBay in August unveiled a multiyear agreement that makes Google the exclusive provider of text-based advertising outside the United States, and extends both companies’ Internet telephony services onto each other’s platforms, Google Talk, and Skype Technologies SA., respectively.