Google is looking for Autocompleters

[travelin cat]

New job openings at the Plex:

Responsibilities:

Watch anonymized search queries as they come in to Google.
Predict and type completions based on your personal experience and intuition.
Suggest spelling corrections when relevant.
Keep updated with query trends and offer fresh suggestions.

Requirements:

Excellent knowledge of English and at least one other language.
Excellent knowledge of grammatical rules (e.g. parts of speech, parsing).
Understanding of the search engine space.
Proven web search experience.
Good typing skills (at least 32,000 WPM).
Willingness to travel (in order to provide local autocompletions) or relocate to obscure places like Nauru and Tuvalu to develop knowledge of local news and trends.
Certificate in psychic reading strongly preferred: palm, tarot, hypnosis, astrology, numerology, runes and/or auras.

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[HuskyPup]

Just how many attempts at April 1st are they having today?

[travelin cat]

I guess they're bored.

[caribguy]

The only good one I've seen so far came from HootSuite.

Private, confidential message from the CEO -sent to everybody- that they intend to switch their business model to online gaming (cause Zynga and Angry Birds are so successful).

The 'retraction' 15 minutes later really topped it off: "please delete and ignore this message" - Classic!

[travelin cat]

Here's a rundown of 27 of them:


www.seroundtable.com/april-fools-google-pranks-13207.html