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Seriously, why ARE Google using Word? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 30th May 2008 20:12 GMT

Either they have no faith in Google Docs' abilities to er, process words, or someone somewhere who is more likely to be using Word is trying to implicate Google through the use of evil metadata. Apply your own Twilight Zone music and trenchcoats as you see fit.

Why Word? Because Google probably didn't write it #

By Mark Dowling Posted Friday 30th May 2008 21:05 GMT

More likely their lawyers did...

Awesome Work! #

By Alpy Posted Friday 30th May 2008 21:11 GMT

I love it when people get caught out like this, I loved even more that someone at Google is using M$ Word over their own product! Awesome work guys, two birds one stone ;)

Mark Dowlin is probably right #

By Mark Posted Friday 30th May 2008 22:25 GMT

Still stinks.

The downer is eBay and PayPal are worse shitehawks.

Life would be much easier if the bad guys ALWAYS lost and were ALWAYS in the wrong.

Don't Be Evil... #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 30th May 2008 23:04 GMT

...Just pay some lawyers to do that sort of thing for you.

Like f*cking over one of your largest customers in secret when you're trying and failing to set yourself up as their competitor.

Sweet.

M$ Word #

By Angus Ireland Posted Saturday 31st May 2008 10:50 GMT

Mark Dowling will probably be correct.

And anyway, does anyone know if Google Docs can print to PDF?

Does that PROVE it was Google? #

By Anonymous Coward Posted Saturday 31st May 2008 11:03 GMT

I don't know, but if I wanted to discredit Google or any other organisation for that matter, couldn't I (as a non-google employee) create a document which I called "from Google", renamed to something else, submitted anonymously and then organised an accomplice to mysteriously discover the original title ?

Google and Word #

By Antoine Dubuc Posted Saturday 31st May 2008 12:56 GMT

Hi,

Google is probably just following the requirements of this agency they're filing with. However Google should have scanned the pdf the agency filed publicly first, if they wanted to be anonymous, and who knows what they wanted?

PayPal is expensive and cumbersome #

By James Smith Posted Saturday 31st May 2008 21:17 GMT

For merchants, PayPal is very expensive when compared to alternatives. Its also very cumbersome to use, IMO.

zzzz... #

By madra Posted Sunday 1st June 2008 08:04 GMT

stop sneaking about behind the scenes google and just launch your own damned auction site! the revenue you lose due to ebay [temporarily!] pulling its advertising will be a drop in the ocean compared to the income you gain from the stampede of disgruntled ebay users, clamouring to sign up.

James Smith : Robot in Disguise #

By Mark SPLINTER Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 08:19 GMT

Check it out, now they're sending shills to diss paypal on any comments page matching +google +paypal.

Ebay and paypal #

By Robert E A Harvey Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 10:19 GMT

I stopped having anything to do with both of them about 3 years ago. I don't trust them and they don't care about security

If anyone knows a decent, honest, auction site I would be interested

Why all this source code work? #

By James Gardiner Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 10:33 GMT

Just go to File -> Properties and the title is viewable from there!

@Mark SPLINTER #

By Jeff Rowse Posted Monday 2nd June 2008 15:16 GMT

Bzzt-beep-beep.

Or, in English, "I don't trust Paypal either, and don't forget it takes some of the money made by selling an item. A cheque doesn't cost me or the seller anything, so guess how I pay..."

Boop-Dee-doop.

Translated, that one means "On the gripping appendage, your comment was obviously meant as a joke, so as another robotic shill I was obviously too literal to see it." :-)