That's odd. And for some reason it isn't showing up on the front page of the blog.

could you capture screen scrap of the post ??

Confirming what Andrews said!!

I had pulled the page up and it was real. They still have a link to the post in their sidebar under recent posts

Confirming Ryan's observations :)-

http://slash.pd.googlepages.com/c2call.png

was this another hack on the blogger platform ?

I left the page open once I saw it (thinking that it seemed incredibly suspect to begin with) – here's a screenshot for everyone who missed it:
http://ejohn.org/files/google-call.gif

The RSS feed says it was posted by Maximal, whereas normal Google posts are posted by "A Googler". I think this is a fake posting.

A Fake posting maybe --maybe not.. note the time frames .. posted in error ??

http://slash.pd.googlepages.com/c2call-2.png

I just saw that too, so strange it's funny

I have noticed this happens sometimes with Google's official blog. The new post appears a few minutes or even an hour after it appears in the RSS feed. Right now, from the RSS feed on my personalized homepage, it has a link to the post, but when clicked returns a 404 error. I'd give it a few hours before considering it a post by a hacker.

-Matt

It's especially funny given that the previous post was on security. imagine if that post had read "ok, it's final – we have acquired...

Here's the Google Reader link for the post:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/07148392604856193486

Edit: After the first comments here suggesting this may be a hack, I'm adding a question mark to the original title of my post.

This is funny. I needed a laugh tonight.

How many times does this make for this blog getting hacked?

Seems like a hack though Google Language Tools....

The post has been taken down. Looks like it was a hack...

I doubt Google will say "We finally consider click-to-call agreement with e-Bay a monopolistic aproach that would damage small companies in the CRM area."

I'm throwing this into Digg...
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Was_the_official_Google_Blog_hacked_just_now

Any guess on which language the post was allegedly translated from? (Has anyone ever come across a reverse translation engine, which shows what a text would have looked like in the original language prior to translation?)

why googleblog can be hacked so easily????

To delete a post or how to crash Google Reader...
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8243/buggooglereaderhy8.jpg

And on the home page of google reader, it tries to read the entry which doens't exists anymore, so I get :
"Oops!
That wasn't supposed to happen.
©2006 Google "

Got to be a hack. Especially notice what's currently tops on the Google blog, a post all about how "Google takes security very seriously and designs all of its services and applications to protect your privacy and data security." This almost certainly is someone reading how "we keep the bad guys out of our systems" and thumbing Google's nose to show nope, they don't.

Google should issue a statement soon if this was a hack (as opposed to pretending it never happened).

Suppose some anti-eBay Googler did that?

I'm still seeing click to call ads when i search up imacs:

http://www.google.com/search?q=imacs

I was wondering if it was a hack, but I didn't want to be branded a heretic by suggesting it :). We need answers Google!

It has to be a hack.

In addition to all of the reasons stated in this thread (grammar, disappearing/reappearing):

1. An official announcement on a Sunday?
2. Click To Call is too important an emerging technology and too close to their core revenue stream for Google to abandon;
3. The reasoning that they don't want to damage small CRM companies defies belief.

Danny, any chance you can email some Google officials for a confirmation/denial?

Google got back to me (I'm still verifying the email sender as my question or subject wasn't included, but it looks authentic):

<<A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake post on the Google Blog claiming that we have discontinued our AdWords click-to-call test. The bug was fixed quickly and the post removed. Our click-to-call test is progressing on schedule and we are pleased with the results thus far.>>

>>>A bug in Blogger enabled an unauthorized user to make a fake

Yes, Host Overflow Application eXception vulnerability is in the wild – any blog that supports RSS and MetaWeblogAPI can be h4x0red

Om Malik reports this is indeed a hack.

http://voip.gigaom.com/2006/10/08/google-click-to-call-not-cancelled-hoax/

<<Official Google Block Hacked>>
Did you mean "Blog"?

I was sure about it since Click to call can turn out to be more successfull for google than adwords.

Official: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/about-that-fake-post.html
Basically saying, "We should delete 'Our security stance'."

The juxtaposition of the two posts together deserves a screenshot I think... but I gotta say, very good of Google to be so straightforward & timely with this.

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-blog-about-fake-post.png

> <<Official Google Block Hacked>>
> Did you mean "Blog"?

Thanks Haochi, I fixed "block" to "blog"!

If it's a Blogger vulnerability then 50 million pages were affected, sort of (they might've fixed this now).
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ablogspot.com&btnG=Google+Search

Oh well, actually 50 million pages were venerable to attack, does not mean that 50 Million pages were affected!!

Thats a big difference Philipp!! :)_
  
the Whitehater, did the job pretty darn well :)-

Yeah this hacker had a good sense of humor :)

He could've made a much more funnier post. He was really really nice :)

I was thinking the same thing Cristian.

I couldn't care less if Google axed C2C.

Danny Sullivan dug up something interesting related to a potential explanation of how the hack took place*:

<<Finally, the hacked post was published by someone calling themselves Maximal. I found a post** from another Maximal on Google Groups asking for help recently with the Google Data API.

   "Hi, I am making tests with Google Data API to publish my posts. The problem is ... my posts are being published into "the Honourable Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang South Africa's Minister of Health" blog (I don't have to say I am not the minister of health of South Africa).

   Any help before Honourable Minister of Health of South Africa would speak with Interpol would be apreciated.?">>

* http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061009-061636
** http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bloggerDev/browse_frm/thread/bd8da9c78a32b7c4

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2006/10/host_overflow_application_exce.html

Well done /pd, and Philipp is right, this guy have a good sense of humor :D

ha ha ha.

Maybe they heard our Mexuar Corraleta application is being launched on October the 24th at Astricon in Dallas and realised their solution was last generation crap.

Check out these links for more info
http://www.mexuar.com/products_sdk.shtml
http://www.mexuar.com/products_connect.shtml#
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/mexuar-ny-tech-meetup-speed.html

Also if you haven't heard of Asterisk check out
http://www.Asterisk.org
http://www.astricon.net

or email me at www.cognation.net for more info.

Cheers,
Dean

Check this:
http://digg.com/security/Google_got_hacked_again

I hate it when companies are obviously replying to stuff just to get people to click on their products...

Oh, and I was referring to "Dean Collins," of course.

More info here:
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2006/10/host_overflow_application_exce.html

"The Host Overflow Application eXception appears to be a HOAX", says this Symantec Security Response Weblog entry.

Juha : correct – "hoax" was published as a POC to establish how a malicious wp plug in could easy pushed to the wp community ..

lol. Hope everyone enjoyed the HOAX. Unfortunately it came out when some real vulnerabilities have been exposed and discussed. Bad timing.