Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic

Xiroth writes "In what could cause an escalation of tensions between the two internet giants, an anonymous critique of eBay's upcoming move to accepting only PayPal as the payment method in Australia has accidently been revealed to have been submitted by Google thanks to PDF meta-tags."

Re:Well done google.

[robot_lords_of_tokyo]

Because google is using word to submit their semi anonymous critiques... shameful shameful

Re:I can also produce a pdf with the same title

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you people on slashdot keep on repeating the same sentences, are you Bor

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[system failure]

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships.

Re:Heh

[hansraj]

That's pretty brazen since the cat was already out of the bag.

So did someone finally figure out whether it was dead or alive?

Re:Heh

[Faylone]

maybe.

Re:RTFA

[Anonymous Coward]

by Anonymous Coward on Sat May 31, 09:44 AM (#23610437)

The mess up was trying to be anonymous in the first place. What else are they hiding?



I don't know... you tell me, Mr. Anonymous Coward.

Re:Heh

[Mr. Bad Example]

> So did someone finally figure out whether it was dead or alive?

Well...yes and no.

Re:I can also produce a pdf with the same title

[LaughingCoder]

Maybe Dan Rather produced it.

Re:Heh

[niko9]

That's pretty brazen since the cat was already out of the bag.

So did someone finally figure out whether it was dead or alive?

African or European cat?

Re:Heh

[The_Wilschon]

Maybe they figured it out, or maybe it's alive? Or maybe to both?

maybe.

Re:Heh

[ikkonoishi]

We always knew it was dead or alive.

Re:Heh

[waca]

We always knew it was dead or alive.

.. or dead and alive. I don't want to be a cat..!

Re:PayPal requires caution

[Anonymous Coward]

It has been my experience that the only real way to make a profit on eBay is if you stole the item in the first place...

On a completely unrelated note, I have a used PSP listed for ten bucks, if anyone is interested.