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[infotoday.com...]
When your resume and business card say "freelance librarian" people are often interested in what you do for a living. Finding the right niche in a tough job market can be a challenge. When Google Answers started accepting applications for researchers for their online question-answering service in April, I thought I'd found my match.
13th June - Applied for the post of researcher
22nd June - Passed the first round. Ready for the second round!
24th June - Selected and answered a couple of sample questions (Round 2 questions) and sent 'em to Google
1st Sept - Received a mail after 2 months! A rather polite email enquiring whether I am still interested in being a researcher.
2nd Sept - I said "YES"
5th Sept - A mail from Google - "After carefully reviewing your application, we have determined that your qualifications do not meet our specific needs"
HUH? Come again? The mail sent on Sept 1st certainly sounds as if they had already selected me as a researcher!
How I Tried to Resign from Google Answers but Found I Was Already Fired.
[librarian.net...]
An explanatory expose on the Google Answers system. I have to say, when i first started reading the article, i thought, mmm! a wee bit of money, but as the complexities that were noted arised over the said timescale, with the lack of experience of Researchers, bots, and the questioner is always right attitude enforced by Google; then, i have to say that the idea is doomed.
my experience working for Google Answers made me feel more often like I was being paid to do Google searches that the questioners didn't have the time or the skill to do
Lets all work for free !
The second artcle regarding the resignation is particuarly spooky towards the the implications or inference that can be drawn out of the reply from the Google Answer Editor Teams reply, especially if hand written, rather than a bot that can spot and swap words for automated email replies.
