Google Blog was Hacked: End of Google/eBay Click-to-Call Alliance was a Hoax

[mandy]

From the Google Blog:

A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog last night, claiming that we've discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. As for the click-to-call test, it is progressing on schedule, and we're pleased with the results thus far.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/a...-post.html

The original fake post:

    Google Click-to-Call project cancelled

    10/07/2006 05:07:34 PM
    After concientiously considering, 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 e-Bay. We finally consider click-to-call agreement with e-Bay a monopolistic aproach that would damage small companies in the CRM area.

    This message has been translated using Google language tools.

[thentavius]

The least they could've done was used spellcheck / grammar check before posting the phony blog.

I never would have believed it.

[bargainbloodhound]

It would probably be safe to say that the hacker owns a small CRM software company (probably a maker of live chat software) in Eastern Europe. 

This message has been translated using Google language tools.

That's the reason I said Eastern Europe. If your languages uses a different alphabet it would be easy not to notice that when you copied and pasted from the translator.