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Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup

Posted by Soulskill on from the hand-in-cookie-jar dept.

An anonymous reader sends in an interesting story from Mocality, a company that painstakingly built a business directory in Kenya. When they discovered that somebody was systematically harvesting the contact information they'd collected (and after a few very odd phone calls from confused Kenyan business owners), they set up a sting to see what was really going on. They swapped out the phone numbers listed for a few businesses with phone numbers in their own call centers, and then waited to see who called. Mocality was shocked to discover it was Google Kenya, who falsely claimed a business collaboration with Mocality, and then lied about Mocality's business practices.

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  1. Re:Can we get a better source? by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

    How much closer to the source do you want?

    I won't believe it until I get to read it in the original Klingon.

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  2. Re:Do no evil indeed by stanlyb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Translated, if something good comes from Google, first we have to understand if it is isolated to a single person, department, by accident, just bad mood, lacking internal culture, and when and only when all other reasons are excluded, we could say: THIS GOOD STUFF COMES FROM GOOGLE. With a little hint of doubt of course.

  3. Re:Do no evil indeed by oldhack · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a simple narrative - Google's got busted. WTF's got to do with Occam's Razor?

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