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masukuma
#1 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 1:42:27 PM
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google nabbed with their finger in the cookie jar

http://blog.mocality.co....what-were-you-thinking/

quite a diffrent company from the company that cried foul about the same from M$
http://www.wordstream.co...pgjys-bing-copies-google
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selah
#2 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 2:45:03 PM
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given the slow response to this post I will assume like me Wazuans were unable to read the all blog or its difficult to understand where the problem is,I mean Google just contacted Mocality listings on the Net by using a sophisticated technology to access the database.

Either this is unethical but not illegal or Mocality is just threatened ,actually I dont understand what the fuss is all about.
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#3 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 2:58:26 PM
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Then why are these mocality guys just whining instead of going to court? I would kill to have this happen to my company and sue for a few million $. IT'S GOOGLE!!! This is what dreams are made of!!!

BBI will solve it :)
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jguru
#4 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 3:00:21 PM
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selah wrote:
given the slow response to this post I will assume like me Wazuans were unable to read the all blog or its difficult to understand where the problem is,I mean Google just contacted Mocality listings on the Net by using a sophisticated technology to access the database.

Either this is unethical but not illegal or Mocality is just threatened ,actually I dont understand what the fuss is all about.


Google (Google Kenya and eventually Google India) then went ahead to make calls to Mocality-listed companies and claimed that Google were in a partnership with Mocality to provide websites to these companies. Google accessed business information that belonged to Mocality and proceeded to "want to profit" from the information. Read the transcripts of the phone conversations.
Set out to correct the world's wrongs and you will most certainly wind up adding to them.
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masukuma
#5 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 3:03:55 PM
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has anyone read the transcripts or listened to the recordings?
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selah
#6 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 3:04:07 PM
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2012 wrote:
Then why are these mocality guys just whining instead of going to court? I would kill to have this happen to my company and sue for a few million $. IT'S GOOGLE!!! This is what dreams are made of!!!


They dont seem to see this as an opportunity suing the company would be free marketing for them not forgetting the cash that would come with winning the suit.
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#7 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 3:04:26 PM
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@masukuma, that is unbelievable. Kudos to Mocality for a thorough investigations! I believe Mocality have a case here. Google has grossly misrepresented them in their fake calls to business owners!

This leaves me with a distaste!

@selah, did you read the entire article!? You would have understood why the fuss!
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masukuma
#8 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 3:13:21 PM
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selah wrote:
2012 wrote:
Then why are these mocality guys just whining instead of going to court? I would kill to have this happen to my company and sue for a few million $. IT'S GOOGLE!!! This is what dreams are made of!!!


They dont seem to see this as an opportunity suing the company would be free marketing for them not forgetting the cash that would come with winning the suit.


this will earn Mocality quite a bit of airtime in the court of public opinion yet it does not rule out the eventuality of taking google to a court of law and possibly get some big guns (M$) to fund its war chest.
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radio
#9 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 3:32:09 PM
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I have noted that Google Kenya outsources most of its services. This is a case of an outsourced provider trying to increase sales by misrepresenting the contractor!
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masukuma
#10 Posted : Friday, January 13, 2012 3:42:51 PM
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tech crunch and boing boing are running with it
http://techcrunch.com/20...ining-a-kenyan-startup/

http://boingboing.net/?p=138807
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