Comments on: Hello, this is Google, your operator, speaking

Search giant tests click-to-call service to connect Web surfers with advertisers over the phone.

[Roman12]

Wow,

Thats a great idea, how do they come up with these things? Ha, well I guess it because that most of their money comes from Ads by Gooooooogle, they try to get the most out of it.
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[whogrant]

How dumb is that

So how long is it before someone figures out you could enter just about anyone's phone number, not your own and create: PHONE SPAM!

So they then tell us the track your IP address to discourage you from doing that, so what. What if your IP has been hijacked by a WiFi interloper or is part of a bot net - then what? It means that someone can then launch a distributed DoS attack on someone's phone number - in the middle of the night most likely, or an attack on an advertiser and all thanks to Google... So they retrict it to signed up Google users, so what - how many tens of thousands of those are owned by spammers now anyway? That's still a lot of bogus phone calls that could be launched at will.

I'm sorry, the only way I want someone calling me via the web is if there is some strong authentication or the authorization comes from my phone line in the first place. I.e. give me a Google 800 number to call, enter a pin and then then Google calls me back with the advertiser on the end of the line. In fact, if Google is routing calls why do they even need to call me back - can't they just dial the advertiser for me?

I expect half the reason is that the connection via Google is made by VoIP. They don't want to route and have to pay for a regular call - but they can make two VoIP calls and connect them together in the middle with a minimum of fuss and expense.

But... they could still give me an 800 number to call from the phone I want called back, that would eliminate the chance of phone spam.

Just wait 'til g-browser (firefox) is integrated...

...we'll see some real PC/telephony integration then, methinks.

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[Der_Amerikaner]

Bravo Google, Bravo!

Google once again has proven itself as a true ally for the consumer, employing technologies to provide greater service to the consumer....