Google Autocompleter Job - April Fool

Autocompleter – Mountain View

This position is located in Mountain View, CA and obscure locations around the world

The area: Product Quality

The Product Quality team ensures that Google has the best worldwide product offerings by analyzing, positioning, packaging and promoting our solutions across a variety of countries and markets where Google does business. The team works closely with the engineering group to continuously improve the search experience.

The role: Autocompleter

Are you passionate about helping people? Are you intuitive? Do you often feel like you know what your friends and family are thinking and can finish their thoughts before they can? Are you an incredibly fast Google searcher? Like, so fast that you can do 20 searches before your mom does 1?

Every day people start typing more than a billion searches on Google and expect Google to predict what they are looking for. In order to do this at scale, we need your help.

Google's quality team is looking for talented, motivated, opinionated technologists to help us predict what users are looking for. If you’re eager to improve the search experience for millions of people and have a proven track record of excellence, this is a project for you!

As a Google Autocompleter, you’ll be expected to successfully guess a user’s intention as he or she starts typing instantly. In a fraction of a second, you’ll need to type in your prediction that will be added to the list of suggestions given by Google. Don’t worry, after a few million predictions you’ll grow the required reflexes.

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.

Courtesy of:  http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/autocompleter/index.html

Google GMail Motion April Fool

Google outdid themselves with April Fool pranks this year. Here is another classic.



 

Full story here:  http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

April Fools Day Pranks

Light-hearted office pranks are a great way to brighten up what could otherwise be a dull and boring day; and whilst April Fools' Day is the perfect opportunity to wreak havoc on unsuspecting colleagues, tricks can be played at any time.

The Frozen Computer
This is a classic office prank, but almost never fails to fool those who are perhaps less technologically minded. Take a screenshot of the user's desktop, and set this as their wallpaper. Make sure that all desktop icons are hidden.
The victim, upon returning to his or her workstation, will be unable to double click on any icons or open any programs, and will inevitably reboot their computer - only to discover the same thing happening again!

Misleading Signs-Notes
In order to cause a lot of confusion, the prankster should place notices on every door in the building stating "Please Use The Other Door". This will then fool anyone who is trying to exit the premises!
A variation on this theme is to place notes on colleagues' desks asking them to see each other urgently, or - even better - invite them to a fictional meeting in the same room at the same time. Then, sit back and watch as they sit in a meeting room looking blankly at one another!

Rumors
Ask the target some ridiculous rumor, "Like is it true you are getting fired?" Other questions could be that they are dating somebody, working for the competition or any other ridiculous rumor. Really there is no limit to the possibilities. Just make sure that you get as many people involved with this one. After they are asked about it enough times they will certainly lose their mind.

Kidnapped
Take an item from the victim's office (something they use a lot such as a special coffee cup, stapler, pencil cup, etc.). Take a picture of the item and leave it on the victim's desk (in the same spot where the item was located), along with a "ransom" note.