Another Google blog hack?

News Type: Other — Sat Oct 7, 2006 9:24 PM EDT

Today myself and other subscribers to the Official Google Blog RSS feed saw an article with the headline "Google Click-to-Call project cancelled", and the following text:

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.

The language of the post and the odd final line made me suspicious that this was not an official Google blog post. Especially ironic considering the previous post in the blog was on security. Upon visiting the official Google blog, the article did not appear - its link gave a 404 error - though its title appeared in the sidebar.

Discussions of this issue, with relevant screenshots, are happening on Digg and the Google Blogoscoped forum.

Addendum: An e-mail purportedly from a Google spokesperson, posted at GigaOM, indicates that a bug in Blogger allowed an unauthorized user to make the fake posting about the click-to-call project being cancelled.

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The blog's been updated...it was indeedy a fake post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/about-that-fake-post.html

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#1 - Sun Oct 8, 2006 5:58 PM EDT

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