Sunday, April 28, 2013

If Google Search worked like the DMV. . .


Wife: Hey honey, where do you want to go for dinner tonight?


Husband: I dunno. Let’s google it.


He types “restaurant” into Google. 45 minutes later. . .


Husband: Awesome, it says it routed us into the processing queue! We should get search results back within 4-5 hours!


Wife: Wow, that’s so much faster than last time!


***

Mike: Hey Bill, do you know the capital of Mongolia?

Bill: No, but I bet Google does. I’ll just do a little search and. . .oh wait, actually I can’t because Google closes at 4:30.

Mike: But it’s only 4:31.

Bill: Yeah, they’re really strict on that closing time. Yesterday they closed at 4:15.

***

Google Employee (looking at clipboard): Ok now I’m going to need you to execute a search for “dolphins” in Images mode.

Teen Student: Piece of cake.

The student clicks on Video mode by accident and quickly clicks back to Images mode.

Google Employee: Oh, I’m sorry--I’m going to have to dock you a point for that meaning unfortunately you have failed the Google Search Test.

Teen Student (distraught): Noo! Please, it was just an accidental click! I know how to get to Images mode! Here, I’ll do it again! See!

Google Employee: Sorry, a mistake like that on a real computer could have cost you precious seconds. We can’t have that. You can re-take the exam in a month. In the meantime, feel free to use Bing for your Search needs.

Teen Student (crosses arms and pouts): Well I’m glad you’re in a joking mood on the worst day of my life.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

How Google Employees would react to an Internet blackout

Googler #1: Guys, the Internet is down! What the hell do we do?!

Googler #2: The Internet is WHAT? Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod.

Googler #1: Calm down. It’s going to be okay. We obviously can’t do any work now, so I guess we should all go home.

Googler #2: To our houses? have no idea how to get there! I always just use Google Maps!

Googler #1: Crap. Me too. Well I just ordered a pizza online so we should be okay on the food front.

Googler #2: Phew. I guess we’ll just have to wait it out here.

Googler #1: Wait a second. . .oh no. . .OH NO. . .I just remembered that I hadn’t confirmed the order online yet! The pizza’s not coming!

Googler #2: WHAT?! No pizza?! We’re all going to starve! And I can’t even email my parents goodbye!

Googler #1: I know. And to think that this could have been the one time I had an interesting tweet.

Googler #2: Hashtag sad.