Mocality http://blog.mocality.co.ke are a company that have manually created a large database (a white pages) of Kenyan businesses to fill a gaping hole in the market.
Google Kenya http://www.google.co.ke are google. Say no more.
Google Kenya have allegedly been trawling through Mocality’s online database and cold calling the companies on the list claiming to be in partnership with Mocality and offering to sell them a website. Nothing wrong with that so far.
The problems are:
* They are not partnered with Mocality
* They have been recorded stating several mistruths to place Mocality in a negative light:
They claim that Mocality is and has been charging a fee to be included in their online directory which is a blatant falsehood that has not and according to Mocality will not happen in the future.
Google Kenya are due to release a statement shortly.
I will conclude this with my opinion upon seeing their statement as so far I have only one side of a story and to be fair and impartial I need both sides.
As promised, an update.
Google are “mortified” to learn that this is happened. I guess that means it is true and is no longer an allegation.
Let’s see if they:
* Refund all monies with interest
* Compensate Mocality
* Do it again somewhere else because, you know, not everyone checks their server IP logs.
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