The Almighty Google

we are all willing to our ignorance, we must be brainwashed

Mdselctr, give D3V his account back.

Google set to replace your telephones..

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/13/g...ice/index.html

Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process. Seriously. Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which broke the news on Monday, reported that Google spent $30 million on the company. Google announced the Gizmo acquisition on Thursday afternoon Pacific Time. Gizmo5's founder Michael Robertson, a brash serial entrepreneur, will become an Adviser to Google Voice. It's a potent recipe -- take Gizmo5's open standards-based online calling system. Add to it the new ability to route calls on Google's massive network of cheap fiber. Toss in Google Voice's free phone number, which will ring your mobile phone, your home phone and your Gizmo5 client on your laptop. ÿþ Meanwhile you can use Gizmo5 to make ultracheap outgoing calls to domestic and international phone numbers, and free calls to Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo and AIM users. You could make and receive calls that bypass the per-minute billing on your smartphone. Then layer on deluxe phone services like free SMS, voicemail transcription, customized call routing, free conference calls and voicemails sent as recordings to your e-mail account, and you have a phone service that competes with Skype, landlines and the Internet telephone offerings from Vonage and cable companies. That's not just pie in-the-sky dreaming. Ask longtime VOIP watcher and consultant Andy Abramson, who introduced the idea of integrating Gizmo5 and Grand Central (now Google Voice), long before Google bought either.

How exactly do you get paid, if you work for google?

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How exactly do you get paid, if you work for google?

http://www.daniweb.com/news/story238775.html

Mark Cuban, the eccentric owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, has a post in his blog this week suggesting a way to kill Google by paying the top one thousand most popular sites $1M each to leave the Google Index. He wonders if Rupert Murdoch's plan to leave the Google Index could mark the beginning of a full-scale exodus from Google, one which could be expedited with some cash payoffs from Microsoft. Now, I'm no legal expert, but it seems to me that such a ploy would not fly with the government, but for the sake of argument, let's say it would. Why would you want to wipe out Google?

Not that one should seriously expect any of the top 1000 sites on Google to give much thought to an offer of $1M for their exclusion.

So, what exactly do you do if you work for google? Programing, technical support... what?
I was considering working for them, before I decided to die. If, by chance, someone stops me, and medicates me, I might get a job there.

Google are so big that, should the top 1000 sites leave Google's index, 1000 other sites will rise to take their places, and the original 1000 will see a massive drop in visits. I only know one person that doesn't use Google, and that's because he's 50-odd, and can't work out how to get to Google from his homepage - Yahoo!.

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Google's main source of revenue is ads, Skurai. As WW mentioned, they also dabble in SaaS - Google Docs work, are fantastic for collaboration between multiple sites, and are a lot cheaper than similar solutions from companies like Microsoft.

Google employees are paid a salary for working there, same as any other employees. People working at Google do... everything. The vast majority of employees are Software Engineers, who work on various Google products (Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Android, Wave and, of course, the search engine), as well as their own project (Google gives everyone one day in five to work on their own projects. Gmail, Wave, Chrome, and various other services saw life as a personal project of a Google employee). The rest of the employees do everything else - finance and accounts, marketing, research, cooking, etc.

To work at Google you have to be enormously intelligent. I'd love to work there one day, but I'm not sure I'd fit the grade, sadly. Regardless of the position you're applying for, you'll be asked some very strange questions which give the interviewers an idea of how you think. For example (and I'll make a new thread with some of them):

* How many golf balls can you fit on a school bus?
* How much would you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
* If you were shrunk down to the size of a nickel and thrown into an empty glass blender sixty seconds before the blades started spinning, what would you do?

The answers are: ~600,000, say about $10 a window, and whatever you want (the third question is there to see how your mind works).

Google are so big that, should the top 1000 sites leave Google's index, 1000 other sites will rise to take their places, and the original 1000 will see a massive drop in visits. I only know one person that doesn't use Google, and that's because he's 50-odd, and can't work out how to get to Google from his homepage - Yahoo!. --- Google's main source of revenue is ads, Skurai. As WW mentioned, they also dabble in SaaS - Google Docs work, are fantastic for collaboration between multiple sites, and are a lot cheaper than similar solutions from companies like Microsoft. Google employees are paid a salary for working there, same as any other employees. People working at Google do... everything. The vast majority of employees are Software Engineers, who work on various Google products (Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Android, Wave and, of course, the search engine), as well as their own project (Google gives everyone one day in five to work on their own projects. Gmail, Wave, Chrome, and various other services saw life as a personal project of a Google employee). The rest of the employees do everything else - finance and accounts, marketing, research, cooking, etc. To work at Google you have to be enormously intelligent. I'd love to work there one day, but I'm not sure I'd fit the grade, sadly. Regardless of the position you're applying for, you'll be asked some very strange questions which give the interviewers an idea of how you think. For example (and I'll make a new thread with some of them): * How many golf balls can you fit on a school bus? * How much would you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle? * If you were shrunk down to the size of a nickel and thrown into an empty glass blender sixty seconds before the blades started spinning, what would you do? The answers are: ~600,000, say about $10 a window, and whatever you want (the third question is there to see how your mind works).

... I'm liking this idea so far. I would very much enjoy an interview like that...

Is that all the questions, or do they ask a long series?

If everyone was asked those three questions then it wouldn't be a very good way of whittling down the candidates...

They ask three or four of those along with some proper questions.