[kictanet] Google's Antics on Mocality

[S.M. Muraya]

Some weeks / months ago was called by a person claiming to be from Google
about setting up a free web site.

Could tell from the presentation this could not be a Google employee so I
asked questions including whether she was working for a Google Partner /
Agent.

She affirmed herself to be working for a Google Partner. At one point in my
drilling, she had to revert to someone else and call me back with answers.

Have no doubt this debacle was out of Google' s control.
On Jan 16, 2012 4:28 PM, "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/16/12, lordmwesh <lordmwesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I am wondering what Google's aswer is to this clear case of dirty
> >> > tricks.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Their initial reaction was :
> >>
> >> 'We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google
> >> project improperly used Mocality’s data and misrepresented our
> >> relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new
> >> websites. We’ve already unreservedly apologised to Mocality. We’re
> >> still investigating exactly how this happened, and as soon as we have
> >> all the facts, we’ll be taking the appropriate action with the people
> >> involved.'
> >>
> >> Am sure we will hear more soon.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >
> >
> > Google PR team are misjudging our intelligence with such a flimsy
> > statement. Even a kid can read in between the lines.
>
> It was from nelson mattos, who I think is VP for EMEA, not from PR.
>
> Not being a child, I can't read in between any of these lines, maybe
> you can fill us in on what you infer?
>
> Knowing what I know about google, the folks in charge of Google KE
> (and the region), I am quite confident that none of these shenanigans
> were approved by them.
>
> I think that James was right when he suggested it was a sub-contractor
> who was responsible and not Google folks themselves. Still, Google
> needs to make this right, as they (and their partners) are all
> tarnished by this misbehavior.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
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