CNN.com article – Brain teasers help Google recruit workers – Nov 4, 2004
Gee… here’s their lead-in to the article:
“Google Inc. locates almost anything on the Web within seconds, but finding the brainy engineers who program the company’s lightning-quick search engine takes more time — and a quirky bit of ingenuity.”
Anything on the web???? Sheesh. Why is it so hard to understand, especially in a techie news story (with probably reporters following techie trends)?
Alrightie – Here are some basic Google lessons for CNN:
1. Google doesn’t REALLY search the web – they search their own database of web history that they’ve gone out and fetched
2. Google is big, but still covers maybe 1/3 of the web
Class dismissed.