If you are looking for jobs, avoid Indeed.
In case you are not familiar with Indeed.com, it’s a job aggregator site that pulls jobs from various sources, such as employer sites, into one place.
It USED to be a good site, but not anymore.And they do NOT include ALL jobs, as they claim. They selectively choose which jobs to include, primarily all from big corporations. The smaller companies are being extorted, or only allowed paid listings, and not organic listings.
This is what they did. In the beginning, when they were unknown, they used other job boards to pull jobs from them. In essense, they pulled content (ie jobs) for their own gain. Once they became big, they kicked out all the job content providers and started charging them for clicks.
What’s more, their selective policy is hidden, it’s not listed anywhere on their site, you can only find out about it over the phone.
Anyone following the tech industry sees this crap everyday – some unknown, stupid, useless website gets millions in funding from venture capital firm A, B, C. blah blah blah company is valued at [insert a big million figure] and the founder is filthy rich. You start thinking to yourself – omg, what am i doing wrong? Why am I not that guy/girl who founded it? Holy shit, let me go start a website and I’ll be rich!
There is only one small problem with that – all of the above are gross exaggerations to create buzz/advertising for the website. There was nothing close to those millions in funding, that company is not worth shit, and the owner is still poor.
Don’t believe the hype you read about tech companies, it is simply NOT TRUE. you are being duped, the same way as when you watch infomercials and they promise that cleaner will clean your shirts perfectly or whatever else – it’s a lie, a gimmick.
Everytime I see articles like that and the comments that follow it, I cringe, because it’s actually pretty sad that people believe it.
Today, google has announced a “radical transformation”. It’s more tightly integrating its social network with its search. Please, say it isn’t so!! When is google gonna stop shoving this Google+ atrocity down our throats? Google is not facebook, and we LIKE it that way. Out of all the tech advances it could possibly pick, why go down the social path?? Just leave it alone! It’s not even that profitable, Facebook’s cpc rates are very low.
It seems like Google is purposefully making mistakes left and right in order to make it easier for its competitors to come in and take away search? Google, remember, search is where 99% of your revenue comes from, not social networking! Please stop f**ing up your search experience, otherwise people will just leave.
Raspberry PI is the talk of the town. An amazing $25 computer! While, no doubt, it’s a cool little device, and we are not taking away anything from the team that developed it, the truth still remains that there is very little REVOLUTIONARY about this device. It plays Quake. But, so what? It’s a 12 year old game that came out in 1999. You can take any pos (first two words: piece of) computer and it will run that game smooth as silk.
$25 computers already exist. Look on ebay. You can buy many old P4 computers for $25. And that will get you hard disk, ram, case, motherboard, processor, expansion, etc. The only advantage that Raspeberry PI has over that old computer is size. So if the creators are so worried about schools not being able to afford computers, not to worry, you can already buy $25 computers. And I am sure if you buy them in bulk, price will be even lower.
What’s more, look at the pricing for some smart phones and tablets. You can buy many non-brand tablets and phones for under $100, some even under $60. When you subtract touchscreen, wi-fi and a bunch of other things that they have, you will get a $25 price.
So, there you go. At first glance, a $25 computer is amazing. But when you think about it, it already exists.
If you are looking for jobs, avoid Indeed.
