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Subject: Working for Google
Category: Computers > Internet
Asked by: mkapples-ga
List Price: $4.50
Posted: 19 Apr 2002 23:44 PDT
Expires: 26 Apr 2002 23:44 PDT
Question ID: 2247
I have a real interest in helping others, my plan is to become a valued member 
of the google team.  Please tell me what other search quieries that are or 
might be overlooked by most searches.  I use mostly commas to find what I need 
and I notice that google assists me at every turn, by asking "Did you mean?"
I have the desire to be professoinal in all that I do.
Please tell me what I might of missed in my studies.
Would you be willing to help me?
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Subject: Re: Working for Google
Answered By: athena-ga on 20 Apr 2002 07:58 PDT
 
The best way to learn more about how to search Google is to read the Google 
help tips, for both basic and advanced searching at:

://www.google.com/help/index.html.

The best way to find about job openings at Google is to read the job postings 
for Google at: 

://www.google.com/jobs/index.html.

To find out how to become a researcher for Google Answers, please refer to the 
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Commenting on questions is a good way to demonstrate your skills for answering 
questions prior to applying to be a researcher.

The best way to learn about how to search using other search engines is to 
refer to their help pages.  

Hope this helps.
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Subject: Re: Working for Google
From: hapanot-ga on 20 Apr 2002 00:15 PDT
 
You might begin by improving your spelling and grammar.

For instance, the first sentence in your question should have a semicolon, not 
a comma:

"I have a real interest in helping others; my plan is to become a valued member 
of the Google team."

Semicolons separate sentences, while commas separate clauses.  You can remember 
the difference by remembering that if the two parts you are separating can be 
broken up into two distinct sentences, then you should use a semicolon.  
Otherwise, use a comma.

Speaking of which, the comma in "...google assists me at every turn, by 
asking..." is superfluous; the sentence fragment should instead read: 

"...google assists me at every turn by asking..."

In addition, "quieries" and "professoinal" are spelled "queries" 
and "professional, respectively.

Another common mistake that many people make is the use of "might of," as I see 
you have in your question.  While in speech you might say "might've," which 
*sounds* like "might of," the contraction is actually formed from the two 
words "might have," as in:

"Please tell me what I might have missed in my studies."

These, and other grammar rules, can be found at the online version of Strunk & 
White's "The Elements of Style," a classic, yet concise work on English grammar:
http://www.bartleby.com/141/
Subject: Re: Working for Google
From: zaprobo-ga on 20 Apr 2002 03:41 PDT
 
As far as I am aware, Google pops up "Did you mean" in one of two cases:
i) Where you have misspelt a word (like in the case 
of "://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=stufff")
ii) Where a site has a word mispelled, and believes you need correcting (in my 
example from point one, perhaps you wanted to find a company with the 
name "Stufff")

In other matters, more advanced/restricted results can be achieved with an 
engine as powerful as Google (although commas are not required/needed in Google 
search strings). More information can be found here:
://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

Hope this helps.

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