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Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the that-was-some-other-search-site dept.

Xiroth writes "In what could cause an escalation of tensions between the two internet giants, an anonymous critique of eBay's upcoming move to accepting only PayPal as the payment method in Australia has accidently been revealed to have been submitted by Google thanks to PDF meta-tags."

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  1. Dirty rotten frame job! by westbake · · Score: 0, Troll

    No one at Google is dumb enough to use M$ Word. How dare M$ frame Google like that? Geeze, they might as well have made it a docx from Vista.

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    1. Re:Dirty rotten frame job! by westbake · · Score: 0, Troll

      Those tags were produced by Adobe distiller or similar. Word does not yet have direct to pdf printing. Shocking how archaic is is, isn't it?

      Oh yeah, I'm not Twitter and I'm not going to shut up, especially for such an ignoramus as you.

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  2. Re:I can also produce a pdf with the same title by klubar · · Score: 0, Troll
    Three shocking things about this story
    • Google uses MS Word--I would have thought they would have eaten their own dog food and used Google apps
    • Google uses Adobe Acrobat--what is all of this proprietary software doing at Google?
    • Google doesn't know enough to look at the metadata before publishing a story--even the most junior PR flack should be coached in proper astroturfing technique
    Oh the horror Google--think of the children.