News for March 26, 2008

Easter and Purim Search Logos
The biggest search engines didn’t mark Easter at all, but Ask.com did run this homepage on Sunday (all screenshots via Barry):

Also, Dogpile:

And Cre8asite:

And Bruce Clay:

SER ran this on Friday to mark Purim, the Jewish holiday celebrating Queen Esther and crew saving the Jews from the evil Haman in long-ago Persia:

A Collection of Bad Google Interview Stories
Silicon Valley Insider has another of those stories about Google job interviews, and the unique experiences candidates have had on them. This one features blown interviews, and at least one somewhat disgusting story where a veteran of the armed forces was asked an insulting question about how many people he’d killed, and if he’d done it efficiently. The general feeling is that Google’s famous arrogance is alive and well. This one was really interesting too:
They have a process which intentionally filters out people who are single minded and […]

See original post by Nathan Weinberg