Imagine getting paid to Google
posted in Technology |I saw an editorial on InfoWorld today that said some people are getting paid [up to $100/hour] to search the internet. The gist seems to be that some people are inherently better at getting results from search engines and Tom Sullivan postulates that one possible reason why is tacit knowledge. I have to say that I can support this observation based on my experience. My friends have always asked me technical questions that neither they or I knew the answer to because I have had consistently better ‘luck’ in getting results from internet search. It hasn’t mattered whether it was a development question, network, systems or problem resolution. I could never figure out exactly why this is, we all use the same search engines, and we all have worked together on the same types of projects and in similar areas of IT with similar backgrounds.
One of the only difference I have ever been able to identify has been that I may have a vocabulary and general breadth of knowledge that exceeds most of the people I know. I find it interesting that there may actually be a ‘career’? as an internet searcher. Please tell me where to sign up!
