Comments on: Google App Engine “Accidentally” Blocks PayPal

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:55:33 +0000

I know this was written over a year ago, but I just uploaded a PayPal button and then took out some Google ads for the book I am selling. Immediately the Pay pal button fails and I have no access to Pay Pal. Now I am not one for conspiracy theories but what is going on here? I assumed the obvious sales technique was PayPal and Google Ads. When I removed the Google cookies and Apps. the problem went away.

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:09:13 +0000

I think Google should flex their muscle and keep paypal blacklisted. Tit for Tat, after two years Google is still prohibited from ebay but lesser known sites payment sites are allowed. It seems to me that they do not consider the alternative pay sites to be a threat to Paypal.

By: nile

nile — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:21:28 +0000

I agree with Paul. Paypal are at least approachable. Google, with their ‘do no evil’ mantra, play havoc by being so secretive. I’m sure we’ve all heard of cases where google ‘just change’ their indexing algorithms without consultation. As owners of the their search engine, this of course becomes their prerogative, but in so doing, demonstrate an arrogance that stretches beyond their remit as a search engine.

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:21:16 +0000

This will be the case if you build ur product which is in some one else’s hands. Apps engine should be good for time pass. But not for serious business.

By: Paul Kruger

Paul Kruger — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:41:54 +0000

I use PayPal and suggest it to my ecommerce web customers. I don’t use or recommend Google Checkout simply because Google is so good at hiding from people. If I have a problem with PayPal I can pick up a phone and call them and get immediate attention. This is very important to ecommerce because the site owners are often dealing with a live customer who does not want to and should not need to wait for an email response days later.

Just try to find a way to call Google about anything.

I will stick to Google for what they do best, search. I will stick to PayPal for what they do best, collect money from buyers.

It’s all well and good to branch out, but some branches need support and Google has none that I can find.

By: markus

markus — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:08:51 +0000

It indeed seems to have been a mistake.

So let’s get over it. We can speculate all day that it was a mistake or on purpose, but it seems to really be a bug, so it is no sense in making this bigger than it really is. No matter if they knew about it or not, this bug is gone, end of story.

By: Indianbytes.com

Indianbytes.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:07:28 +0000

PayPal blocked by Google App Engine…

It turns out that Google App Engine, their new platform for building and hosting third party web applications, is blocking applications from integrating with PayPal for payments.

Developers who are building apps that use PayPal to handle payments usua…

By: Diamonds

Diamonds — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:44:14 +0000

Not a conspiracy, just an honest mistake, it would seem…

By: miroslav

miroslav — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:17:09 +0000

And of course Google is developing program similar to Paypal named googlepay. Anything to do with the conflict of the interests??

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:30:46 +0000

Of course it was a bug… but one that they must have known about. But until anyone points it out they won’t do anything about it.

Remember how Microsoft was done in for so many “crimes”, I think it’s time Google too are taken to task.

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:15:53 +0000

Well… if paypal, a big online ancient business was blocked by Google, so, everybody can be too…

By: Thomas Mutai

Thomas Mutai — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:58:24 +0000

it would be nice if google would offer its checkout to merchants so that paypal and others will feel the pinch hence, they will offer better services due to high competition.

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By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:23:07 +0000

Did anyone consider that maybe Paypal’s blocking Google (perhaps as a byproduct of some other nefarious scheme), and didn’t realize the implications on checkout. In exchange for Google keeping this quiet, PayPal is removing the block.

Out there, I know, but not impossible.

By: Ole Eichhorn

Ole Eichhorn — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:29:51 +0000

So much for don’t be evil.

Even eBay at their competitive worst (back in the Billpoint days) never blocked PayPal.

By: RevRex

RevRex — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:35:27 +0000

I went to pay for a won ebay item over the weekend via firefox and kept getting a “retry login” error that even after clearing cache and cookies I still cannot login via that browser. Reluctantly I opened IE and it worked perfectly. Right now, as I try to go to http://www.paypal.com I get a “Page not found” in the title bar and a “Click here to retry” link which just loops.

Most bizarre and most curious.

-Rex

By: Marc Fawzi

Marc Fawzi — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:34:02 +0000

Over zealous engineers or a senior exec masturbated all over the code.

Luckily, no one was hurt.

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By: AJ - GaramBlog.com

AJ - GaramBlog.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:35:24 +0000

Google refuses to have any competition what so ever, Google will certainly do their best to promote Google Check out instead of letting PayPal get their customers.

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By: CG

CG — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:20:08 +0000

Google has apparently fixed the problem.

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This issue has now been fixed. These URLs are now accessible with Google App Engine.

-Marzia

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via http://groups.g...059b0750c45703b

By: Nick Leung

Nick Leung — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:59:02 +0000

This just in!
According to Google App Engine Groups, it’s a bug!
http://groups.g...059b0750c45703b
Hi,

Thanks for the report! This is a bug, and we have located the problem.
There was an error in our anti-phishing protections that was blocking
some specific URL domains from being fetched using the URLFetch
service. This was an oversight on our part, and these specific domain
restrictions will be removed in the next few days.

Thanks,
Marzia

Hope that settles it!

By: Ron Paul

Ron Paul — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:38:17 +0000

9/11 was an inside job!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:15:53 +0000

This speculation is silly, even considering the bad blood lately. I could totally understand if Google wanted to force developers to use Google Checkout. I could also totally understand this being an unintentional bug (mistakes, even major ones, happen to even the smartest of developers on large pieces of software). But it makes no sense for Google to maintain a policy of *silently* blocking Paypal. This does nothing but hurt developers using their platform.