Google, what were you thinking?
OK, now this is just exploring an idea about WHY this might have been done.<p>Rough details:<p>Google doesn't develop business web sites, but the callers were offering that service.<p>Obtaining their business contact database, and misrepresenting themselves, in a very un-Google way.<p>Since early November 2011. And the call operation switched to India when spotted.<p>The businesses being called were all in Kenya. KENYA - now why does that ring a bell?<p>Google admits it happened, but is vague about who did it. "a team of people working on a Google project"<p>Hmmm... You'd think if there was a clear relationship that Google could admit to, they would have. I smell something a bit more intense than mere bad business choices.<p>How about this:<p>Suppose you were a current US President, who (for whatever reason) very very strongly desired to eliminate (or 'modify') a specific piece of paper held at the Coast Province General Hospital, Kenya. A birth certificate, from 1961.
 This one: <a href="http://everist.org/pics/Obama_bc/lucas_Obama_bc.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://everist.org/pics/Obama_bc/lucas_Obama_bc.jpg</a><p>Someone comes up with the bright idea to offer a document digitizing and cloud archiving service to the hospital. Just to get hands-on for that one piece of paper.<p>But as cover... you'd need something much more general. Like offering web hosting to all businesses in Kenya. Comes with document scanning at low low prices!
You can trust us, we’re GOOGLE! And we are associates of your widely liked Mocality.<p>So why now? Because finally a lawsuit about Obama's eligibility established legal standing and made it to the supreme court. Document discovery begins. Stuff's about to hit the ventilators...<p>20120113  VERY QUIETLY OBAMA’S CITIZENSHIP CASE REACHES THE SUPREME COURT
<a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/01/09/very-quietly-obamas-citizenship-case-reaches-the-supreme-court/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/01/09/very-quietly-obamas-...</a><p>That and other cases have been working their way through slowly. Takes months, and someone maybe saw a need and activated some emergency contingency plans.<p>Just a thought. There’s always a reason, and it's often not the most obvious one.<p>Why would any actual Google team, even rogue, offer web services Google simply does not do?