| Date: | June 26, 2006 / year-entry #213 |
| Tags: | other |
| Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060626-59/?p=30733 |
| Comments: | 36 |
| Summary: | Commenter Pavel Vozenilek noticed that if you type my name into Google, there is only one sponsored link, and it's from Google themselves, inviting you to apply for a job there. (Maybe I should sue. Perhaps I can get a settlement.) When I mentioned this to some other people at Microsoft, they started hunting around... |
Commenter Pavel Vozenilek noticed that if you type my name into Google, there is only one sponsored link, and it's from Google themselves, inviting you to apply for a job there. (Maybe I should sue. Perhaps I can get a settlement.) When I mentioned this to some other people at Microsoft, they started hunting around to see what sort of ads came up on Google when they searched for other names. Eric Gunnerson and Brad Abrams are available at low prices, and you can get Randy Holloway on eBay. Of all the Microsoft bloggers, the only other one that gets the Google Jobs treatment is Larry Osterman. (Note: All links behaved as described when I originally wrote this entry; due to the nature of sponsored links, they may behave differently by the time you read this.) [9am update: Wow that was fast. The Google Jobs links for Larry Osterman and me are already gone.] |
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That is the coolest thing ever. Perhaps you should apply? :)
And to think, if I’d succeeded at adblocking Google Ads, I may have never learned of this exciting job opportunity.
I don’t think google wants to reqruit you.
Probably it figured out somehow, that people searching for your blog are not bad applicants for job at google.
Looks like Larry’s on the outs now . . .
I thought maybe Google wanted folks who searched for you because you were "just another Linux hacker", but that query string didn’t feed me an ad asking me to apply for a job at Google.
Meh. Who needs asking, anyway?
I have amazon sponsoring book links to my name, but what you get varies from country to country.
Here in the UK, google dont react to Raymond Chen; maybe they don’t want any windows programmers…
One of the rare times I’m dissapointed I block ads.
When I hit the link I say the AD from google. Now I do not. Interesting.
I say you trademark your name and sue them :-)
Well it looks like both ads are gone now, I guess someone from Google reads your blog and took them down.
Oddly enough MY name comes up with an add… ya it’s a redirect to ebay, but it’s still odd. I don’t know if it’s just random luck, but it’s there, and has both words in the ad.
I think everyone should check there names to see what may come up.
The eBay sellers are crazy, they just buy ads for random words & phrases. "African slaves" used to result in amusing/horrifying ads from eBay sellers.
I sometimes get eBay and Amazon sponsored links for random stuff that you cannot buy online like Windows APIs.
It was me! I bought your name because I knew that "all the cool developers" read this blog.
Due to the nature of sponsored links, they may behave differently be the time you read this. This means that only a few people per day will actually see these ads.
I was wondering how long it would take for you to report on this.
Btw, for those who don’t know me – I worked with Raymond at Microsoft, and now I work at Google.
I have several friends who buy their own name… it gives a rough metric on how many people search for them.
I don’t know if Bob Day is serious about buying the ad, but it’s true about the limiting of how many people see the ad.
When you start an ad campaign with Google AdWords, you specify a limit of how much to spend per day. Depending on whether the ad is paid per click or per impression, there reaches a point where the max amount of money has been spent on the ad in a day. Thus, the ad stops showing up.
So, try again tomorrow!
Google is the America-hating empire. Their attempts to recruit fine conservatives and brainwash them with their liberal agenda is well-documented.
Remember, readers – good conservatives will boycott the communist Google and stick with the capitalist, Republican Microsoft.
A fine writeup:
http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2006/06/07/google-the-america-hating-empire-is-taking-over.aspx
Concerned Parent, thanks for the good laugh.
Been reading both for ages, didn’t even get an interview with google ;p
Raymond, on the Visual Studio titlebar and in the about box it says “Microsoft Development Environment” instead of “Visual Studio.” Why do we all call it Visual Studio?
This reminds me of a somewhat recent BOFH. Raymond (and Larry), this one’s for you:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/03/bofh_2006_episode_5/
But you’re the king of MS trivia!
Howard: It looks like VS 2005 eradicates all traces of "Microsoft Development Environment", properly displaying "Microsoft Visual Studio" instead.
[Right, sorry, I thought that was obvious. They’re after people who search for me, not after me. (I mean, I know what my own URL is! Why would I search for it?) -Raymond]
Emmm… with similar logic, those subscriptors of your blog also already know the URL, so they wouldn’t need to search it either.
So they’re just finding those who didn’t know your blog and starting to search it? :P
Unfortunately there was no sponsered link when I searched your name :(
hey why not apply! ;-)
> How do I abdicate? -Raymond]
A king? Two ways:
(1) die.
(2) marry a divorced American[*].
[* Other nationalities might disqualify too, but marrying a divorced Brit[**] hasn’t apparently resulted in disqualification.]
[** In addition to being divorced himself, though if I understand correctly, he isn’t a Brit himself. He’s a prince of Canada and several other countries, but if I understand correctly the royalty of those countries have no nationality themselves.]
[Ooooops. I hope this doesn’t mean I’ve read too much trivia.]
>I have several friends who buy their own name… it gives a rough metric on how many people search for them.
I like the subtle vanity here.
I don’t think peoples names are likely to be unique yet the assumption is people are searching for *me*. I even found another raymond chen on the net, perhaps google are after him!
On the abdication, it is normally a voluntary action (actual rules will depend on the realm you rule) so all you need to do is say so…
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:59 AM by IanA
> On the abdication, it is normally a voluntary
> action (actual rules will depend on the realm
> you rule) so all you need to do is say so…
The question of whether it’s voluntary or not is unrelated to the question of how the rules operate.
In my limited understanding, laws that are passed in the UK become
effective retroactively to the beginning of the day in which they
receive royal assent. But an exception was made for the law
approving the abdication, making it effective at the beginning of the
next day after it received royal assent.
I once asked a couple of others who should know whether Canada
passed a similar law and made a similar exception. Technically
the exception wouldn’t be required in Canada because the Governor
General gives royal assent as the crown’s representative without any
need to check who actually owns the crown that day. But if Canada
or other countries didn’t pass laws approving the alteration to the
monarchy, then the abdication didn’t occur and the Commonwealth has a
constitutional crisis. But the people that I asked didn’t know
the answer.
I for one, would never abdicate and give up on a perfectly good reason to wear a fancy hat.
I can still see the ad!! its not gone!
Me too
Looks like Eric Gunnerson and Brad Abrams now show the Google ad as well.
LOL. They probably consulted their lawyers. Lawyers said OK and the ad was restored.
Come to think of it, would searches for Raymond Osterman and Larry Chen produce the same sponsored results?
How do you think I feel?
Yesterday was my wife’s birthday.
There were two presents of note. The first was a serotonin necklace…