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Google's Copernicus Center
Brad Barnich was one of countless readers to note that Google has begun accepting job applications for its new Copernicus data center. I imagine this will eat a sizable portion of their IPO profits, however with this new center not opening until 2007, they at least can take their time!
Emailing the email address given on the last page generates this auto-reply:
Thank you for contacting Google about our Copernicus Research Center.
We've received an overwhelming response to this opportunity and are not currently accepting additional resumes. We will, however, keep your information on file should we have an opening in the future. At the current staffing levels, we anticipate that we may need additional applicants on or around April Fool's Day in 2104. Until then, we appreciate your interest in Google and your taking the time to write us.
Sincerely,
The Googlunar Recruiting Team
Now, would Google have been able to be this kewl if they had gone public?
Josh.
How many roads must a man walk down? 42.
2007?
By that time, we'll have entered President Kerry's third term in office, with Saddam's trial nearly over, and...
Oops, never mind, I'm not really from the future, don't really know what's going to happen... put that gun down...
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Well, at least its not india...
GMail has been updated and has a few tidbits of new information.
Maybe the fact that they have this on their website will convince people that the gmail thing is actually for real?
so has google done two april fools jokes this year? or is gMail for real?
...but I'm getting really tired of April Fools already.
-"Nice jacket, who shot the couch?."
I'm up for a free trip to the moon, it can't be any worse than IT here!
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google sure is taking this april fool's thing quite seriously...
next story, "google accepts microsoft take-over bid"?
Finally, a first post that's relevant.. What is this, april fools day?
Online Starcraft RPG? At
Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
No fear of outsourcing!!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
I'm applying for the regional Leader of the Universe position slated for 2008, that many of you might not know about if you aren't in the know at Google. My salary will be $2k/second and my office will be on Alpha Centauri, complete with Rapid Human Download back and forth from Earth on holidays, as Google's Alpha Centauri operations cater mostly to outer-world beings from the Master of Orion xeno-gaggle.
googles april fool jokes are just plain lame these days.
they must be outsourcing them to india.
I'm begging you, Taco! Please stop. This stuff was lame thre or four years ago!
I'll take a story on a new kernel, even a BSD article. Anyhing!
Sure... Google's going to the moon just because of the fact that... ... there's no minimum wage laws. ... they'd be outside of every tax jurisdiction. ... there's no labor practice laws. ... there's a weaker gravity law there. ... the longer moon days that can be used to justify workdays. ... there's a 0% employment rate there. ... a large building's roof can also serve as an earth-visble billboard ...
If anyone can do it, I'd suspect Google could. I'd not put it past them to make a serious attempt if they had that kind of capital.
But, seriosuly, April Fool's Day is the stupidest god damned holiday ever. And we geeks are particularly pathetic at attempting to be "funny" for it. I mean..."come on." -- Jimmy.
According to Reuters the lunar job is a hoax, but qmail isn't. We will see..
... there's only one way to get one.
True story.
I call BS on that -- any data-driven company that can't ship me digital video on-demand while onsite isn't worth a damn.
They also let out the secrets of their search technology.
So this is Google's April Fools day gag, which means GMail is for real. Which is why the major newswires picked it up. Wow 1 GB of email space? Even their website has been updated with terms and conditions.
Only 1000 users get to test GMail from today. Those lucky bastards.
Cowboy Neal!
Oh wait...
Mod +5 Drunk
Hey, at least we know that this particular april fools joke won't be slashdotted...
-- Minds are like parachutes... they work best when open.
Looks like gmail really is real.
Forbes says Gmail real, Copernicus joke
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Seriously, space is a good place for a big chunk of web infrastructure-though near earth orbit would be better than the moon.
does anyone have Lance Bass' email address?
And a pony! But that just means that the new Google center will get Slashdotted.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
As long as they pay for the gas/rocket fuel to and from work.
Should I let the people at Google know that I do have the Pink Floyd 1968 BBC appearance that they're looking for?
Do you think they'd give me, like, stock in exchange?
I found a use for this. In breaking up with my really not all there girlfriend. I can send this to her and tell her I got a job there and that I'm sorry but I have to move away. I would love to see her buy into this. She actually would too.
Evolution or ID?
Ddo you want a 1GB free email account? I'll give you one on my box. Just post your IP so that I can authorize it for SMTP.
You 4re teh sux0r!
Ok this is getting old. Isn't it enough that every site on the internet feels the need to contribute its own april fools joke; slashdot has to do three dozen.
Just wait til someone puts an SCO article up. It'll be so bizzare nobody'll be able to figure out if it's real or not.
Not being American -is that somewhere near UTAH? I heard SCO has an office there...
Malda is behind? That's strange. It's usual Michael in the back.
-CowboyNeal
My favorite part of the gag was when they said that the Googlunaplex would feature "a sushi chef formerly employed by the pop group Hanson." Maybe it's just my love of self-referential deprecations.
Truth that time travel causes insanity, 2007 would mark the year before the end of his first term, if by chance he was to be elected (crossing my fingers hoping the american people aren't stupid and vote for him).
Once the facility is built, the real work begins. Google will be exploring a number of exciting research projects that have the potential to advance search science to a new frontier. Among the questions Googlunars will seek to answer are:
Exactly how far does the Worldwide web extend? Can it become an interplanetary utility? If so, will it replace Water Works on Monopoly(R)?
What are the likely effects of link attenuation over extreme distances? Is there a limit to link strength, or is it infinitely extensible like bubble gum that gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe?
What happens to PageRank in the proximity of a black hole? Is there distortion that might result in link relevancy reduction or popularity warping? Could this somehow be harnessed to generate more dates for engineers?
Does spam go on forever?
ps - yes, I know. Its called playing along.
Ok, this one is actually funny. The others were blech and stupid. this one I enjoyed reading. someone took time to fabricate a story around the prank.
So do they pay relocation costs? At the current rate of $20 million just to go to the International Space Station, I do not think I could afford the relocation cost to the Moon.
Looking for a job?
Want your resume written professionally?
DON'T USE TUNAREZ!!!
Good News: I got 5 moderator points to use or lose! Yipee!!!
Bad News: It's april 1st! BOOOOO!!!!!
The road between democracy and tyranny is paved with secrecy in the name of security.
"... At the current staffing levels, we anticipate that we may need additional applicants on or around April Fool's Day in 2104" Is it just me, or is there something a bit strange with that?
I for one welcome our new G.C.H.E.E.S.E. eating overlords.
--HiDeHiDeHo
You had time to RTFA, email them, get your reply and still get first post!
Did you take a look at Google's benefits?m l
http://www.google.com/jobs/benefits.ht
On site doctor and dentist visits? Massage and gym? I guess Google didn't get the memo that the dot-com bubble has burst.
Oh, and for all those people that keep saying TANSTAAFL: sure there is...just get a job at Google.
I think Copernicus is probably just a cover to further throw people off that gmail's fake.
hate titty pee colon slash slash
Is this:
http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html
My two favorite mispellings:
buttney spears
brititany spears (more appropriate than you would first think)
"We need a fourth law of Robotics: Stop Fingering My Wife"
man, you really know you're a geek when misread a sentence as "...they at least can make their time!"
What you say!! Someone set up us the bomb!
Google has begun accepting job applications for [it is] new Copernicus data center.
Wha?
No wonder Google looks like it's positioning itself to take over the world...
...location-based service "gSpot" ;-)
When you ask an Editor to delete a post, it is like you are asking Hitler to burn another jew.
Fucking Nazi.
Cheese, enough with the joke postings, please. Or are the editors here really just that dumb?
it's new Copernicus data center
There should be no apostrophe on 'its' in this case. Unless you're trying to say that Google is a new Copernicus data centre (or 'center', as you Americans incorrectly spell it).
Ooh, I can't wait to get modded down!
SpamNet - a spam blocker that really works
Yes, Gmail is real:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4641298/
Google spokesman David Krane, reached Wednesday night, admitted that the "color and personality" of the press release -- which is dated "April 1 UTC" and includes phrases such as "millions of M&Ms later, Gmail was born" -- "was indeed in the spirit of April 1" but said that Gmail was a serious product.
"We are beginning to test a free e-mail service," Krane told MSNBC.com.
Yes, Gmail is real:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4641298/
Google spokesman David Krane, reached Wednesday night, admitted that the "color and personality" of the press release -- which is dated "April 1 UTC" and includes phrases such as "millions of M&Ms later, Gmail was born" -- "was indeed in the spirit of April 1" but said that Gmail was a serious product.
"We are beginning to test a free e-mail service," Krane told MSNBC.com.
What I really like is the blue bar that tells you what your query was. So many times I come back to a window and forget where I was, what I was doing, etc. Now I can look up and see "Web" and remember that I'm searching the World-wide Web.
Thanks Google, for just doing it right.
I got a response and after some discusion nailed down a salary and options. They're going to be running something called BeOS.
I be l33t on the m00n.
With sexy chicks like the lovely Lt. Gay Ellis you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of Linux if she told you to? Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight deamon or a gay looking goat ! Don't you wish you could get one of these ? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty !
Join the campaign for more cute open source purple-haired moonbabes today!
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I didn't post this as AC, so I must not be trolling.
Actually, google will in time grow into DNA's "total perspective vortex", which we can then put people like John Ashcroft into.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I did however find another "real" position to apply for...
They ran out of pigeons?
Study everything, you'll find something you can use - Jason Bourne
The picture in the article looks like the technodrome?
Editor's get to burn Jews? Sweet! How do I get Editor points on this list?
Perhaps GCHEESE is the obvious joke to hide the real joke, Gmail.
Or maybe I'm the real April fool.
I emailed them the following:
> Greetings.
>
> I have been responsible for monitoring communications from your planet
> for some time now. It's been a largely dull and unsatisfying job, the
> highlights until recently being the discovery of fire and the wheel. The
> last couple of years have seen the creation of search engines; a
> development that proves you may be worthy of our further interest.
>
> I am communicating with you to tell you that we have a sleeping opeartive
> on your planet who may be useful to you. His name is <SNIP/>, a
> human as yet unaware of his importance to inter-stella information
> retrieval. He has been conditioned to know much about C/C++, languages
> that were in the ascendency before Java/C# caused the beginning of the
> end of computational technology. You would be well advised to employ this
> organism.
>
> Yours faithfully,
> [string outside unicode encoding]
>
> PS. We may be interested in exchanging your knowledge of "PageRank" with
> our knowledge of inter-stella travel. Your employment of our operative
> may help cement the deal.
i get my first ever moderator points on april fools day. this is some sort of a cruel joke isnt it?