Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 13, 2012 @02:30AM 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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Re:Can we get a better source? by Alsee · 2012-01-13 03:09 · 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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