Debunking the Google Interview Myth
Posted on Monday, May 17th, 2010
Years ago, rumors used to circulate about Microsoft interviews. They were the hot, new company that everyone wanted to work. With envy came the urban myths. These rumors have since been transfered to Google, and [...]
continue readingTechCrunch: "Why Google Employees Quit"
Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Last week, TechCrunch re-posted snippets from an email list for former googlers. This article was set up to make an obvious conclusion: Google is not the fairy tale land of employment.
Wait, wait, you mean [...]
Google App Engine – Caching and Downtimes (Rant)
Posted on Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Google App Engine:
“We will be taking memcache offline tomorrow morning from 9-10am PST (GMT-8) for routine maintenance. Calls to the memcache API will *not* throw exceptions but will instead return false for [...]
A Googly Peek into Racism
Posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Racism is rampant. Maybe this election has made people less racist, maybe it hasn’t. At the very least, I hope that it has made people realize that, yes, racism is still very [...]
continue readingIn Honor of the VP Debates…
Posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Brought to you by Google’s 2001 search index, a quick comparison to show just how new to the scene Sarah Palin is:
John McCain: 158,000 hits in 2001Joe Biden: 3,240 hits in 2001Barack Obama: 671 hits [...]
Cuil – The Next “Google Killer”?
Posted on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
With the recent press about Cuil, the latest “Google-Killer Search Engine”, it seems that we’ve forgotten the lessons from the late 90s. Cuil’s claim to fame appears to be:
It was founded by Ex-Googlers
They claim [...]
Why I left Google
Posted on Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Yes, folks, it’s true. April 11th, almost three years after my first day as a Googler (or “Noogler”), was my last day. Did I hate it? Did something go horribly wrong? [...]
continue readingApril Fools Day
Posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I’m embarrassed to admit that I almost fell for Gmail custom time. I thought “oh, that’s sort of sketchy”… and then I quickly remembered it’s April Fools day. Nice try, guys .
I [...]
Form Happy – Happy Forms!
Posted on Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I’ve gone a little bit form happy today. Google Docs just announced today the introduction of forms in Google Spreadsheets. Oh, happy day…
Prior to this, I had a simple little form [...]
Google Seattle/Kirkland Tech Talks
Posted on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Google Seattle/Kirkland is running its tech talk series with speaking from inside and outside of Google. Here’s the lineup:
February 21, 20086:30 – 9:00 PM
Web Archives & Interfaces for Social Studies of Online ActionKirsten Foot, [...]