October 03, 2004

Clever enough to work for Google? Here's the aptitude test... page 2 page 3 page 4
posted by Plegmund 20 years ago
  • Well, I know the answer to question 3...
  • 2. you must understand middle-american brain then predict the past
  • stuff like this makes me feel even MORE stupid because in addition to not knowing the answers, i can't even tell if this thing is real or not. *technotard*
  • My husband suggests that the way to find the answer to these questions is to google them. He came up with this idea after I posed the multiple choice team size question to him--he's a developer/release engineering manager--and he said "it depends on the project" (and the people involved, etc.)
  • Side, you're confusing ignorance with stupidity. Retard. Sheesh.
  • Sidedish -- those are the same thoughts that went through my head. Dammit, gotta go flip some more burgers.
  • I'll have fries with mine.
  • And a Laaaaaarrrrrrge Orrrrrrraaaanggge Drink!
  • chicken nuggets? what flavor sauce?
  • What question listed determines capacity for plodding good work? These philosphy gauges, these Fibonacci inspired riddles which determines the lack of a larcenous heart? The longing to lead? What of Unix is broken? This I may not know, but it can be learned. But can the service of a seasoned Samurai, who knows of patience, and preparation, be rendered onto card with number two pencil?
  • I've been messing around with Google afain. Googling -- peace -- yields 28,800,000 results Googling -- war --> yields 98,200,000 results Googling -- god --> 57,500,000 results Googling -- girl --> 96,810,000 results Googling -- poem --> 16,800,000 results Googling -- song --> 39,500,000 results Googling -- story --> 147,000,000 ressults Googling -- art --> 194,000,000 results Googling --> photo --> 202,000,000 results Googling --> x --> 349,000,000 results Googling --> you --> 1,010,000,000 Googling -- i(I) --> 1,370,000,000 Googling -- of -->3,920,000,000 Couldn't come up with any single item/word query that scores a greater number of results than that. Is this the maximum number of results possible?
  • --- the --> 5 720 000 000
  • Well, I'll be damned. For years it's been telling me it doesn't do the and a. And now this. O base and treacherous Google! Thanks, Wolof, now I can go D'oh for the day.
  • ©2004 Google - Searching 4,285,199,774 web pages Somethin' ain't right with that 'the' result.
  • I got a hard copy of this in the magazine/alumni publication of my alma mater.... This goes along with the billboards they have up in silicon valley and Cambridge, MA.
  • Apropos of nothing, but inspired by bees's post I offer you, The World According to Altavista and More of The World According to Altavista. A couple great pre-Google Domination-era gems from the Brunching Shutlecocks, RIP. </derail>
  • 2. on coming of fall people's need for angora ever increasing three months again pass the leaves on trees turn auburn rerun algorithm
  • Weird, my "the" returned 5,840,000,000, 120,000,000 more than Wolof.
  • I'm with Space Coyote.
  • you can't possibly be serious...you mean to tell me that even the messengers have to take this test?
  • I don't think they have messengers, they just grok, or something.
  • Now Google returns only 5,800,000,000 for "the" -- it is not a fixed number! Not fixed...uh, Google is broken? Helphelphelp! The-sky-is-fallling! /flaps wings wildly