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James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, November 29, 2007
16 years ago3,625 views

A 6 question quiz about google, I only got 20/60, I was sooo embarrased

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fortune/0701/quiz.googlequiz/frameset.exclude.html

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Hrmm. Same here, 20 out of 60. Those questions are often impossible trivia! :)

<<ANALYSIS:
Yikes, you've got a lot to learn. Don't quit your current job.>>

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Which ones did you get? I got Q2 and Q3 right

Kirby Witmer [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

what! I got the same thing. 20 out of 60. :(

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I got 40/60, but the quiz is lame.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

30 out of 60

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

damn! You beat us!

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Your final score:
50 out of 60
ANALYSIS:
You've got the basics, but you're not ready to be a Noogler yet.

And I promise I didn't revise or cheat. I got Q1 wrong.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I was interested to discover that Googlers have to pay $30/hour for their massages, when so much else is free.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Roger, I would have thought they were free too until I read this:

<< At first it was free, but I was booked 6 months in advance. It was hard for the new people to get an appointment. So, they instituted a co-pay and it slowed it down for a very short time, but that didn’t last long. >>

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-23-n60.html

Avrohom Eliezer Friedman (AEF) [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I got 30/60 First 3 right – last three wrong

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I got 50/60. I believe the first question is actually wrong these days. I could have sworn there are about 15 cafes now.

Disclaimer: I actually spent a year working at the main Googleplex.

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

^ Lucky!

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

60/60

[put at-character here]Colin:
What did you do there?

Reto Meier [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

If my Google-fu is working,

"[Colin] work[ed] on the Partner Solutions team at Google...", specifically on Googlebase, is that right Colin?

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[put at-character here]Reto,

I worked on a few services: Google Base, Google Scholar and some minor work with Maps.

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Colin, what is the purpose of google base

I mean, googles mission is to organise the worlds info, but Base just seams a way of doing it very slap-dash until something better comes out.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[put at-character here]James, Its a giant database of anything you could put in a database. I was never informed of its main goal or what might happen with it in the future. But I think its a good step in the right direction when it comes to being able to store random things in a database.

Google was testing Base results in the main Google index but I haven't seen anything like that in a while (more than a few months). I played around with Base by storing Genealogy data in it. It was interesting to be able to pull down specific people based off of what year they were born, what last name they had, showing only males or females or both... etc. It was a great way of digging deeper into my data.

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