Google's Official Blog had some interesting news over the weekend, to the effect that it had "decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project". It would have been a good story, if I'd believed it. Today, however, Google said, as expected: "A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog claiming that we have discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. Our click-to-call test is progressing on schedule and we are pleased with the results thus far."
As Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch pointed out at the time:
Got to be a hack. Especially notice what's currently tops on the Google blog, a post all about how "Google takes security very seriously and designs all of its services and applications to protect your privacy and data security." This almost certainly is someone reading how "we keep the bad guys out of our systems" and thumbing Google's nose to show nope, they don't.
So the hacker made his point. But if only he'd posted something more plausible, without the bad grammar and misspellings, then perhaps lots of people would have been taken in. That would have been much more fun.
