Tom Vendetta, a 16 year old sophomore from New Jersey, found a hole in Google’s news system and wrote an interesting fake press release (I’d link it except as far as I can see, it’s been removed from the net)…
(I-Newswire) – 15 year old student, Tom Vendetta has been hired by search engine giant Google Inc. The student will receive a lowered salary, which will be placed into a bank account for future education, said Google CEO Larry Page. When asked what role Vendetta will play at the Tech Giant’s offices, Page said he wouldnt have a role at the Main Offices. Instead he would work from his home in the New Jersey suburbs. Vendetta will be incharge of working with recent security flaw’s in Google’s beta e-mail service, “Gmail”. Google said they first found out about him when they discovered the student’s blog, at http://tomvendetta.be. The media giant said they looked forward to working with Vendetta’s expertise in JavaScript and AJAX.
Comments abound on the net ranging from amazement to anger (just read any of the comments on Diggs or any other site/blog that writes about this).
Interesting write-up here on one of Joel’s fav SEO sites.
Seems to me that more job seekers may want to send out their own personal releases. Just search on “Tom Vendetta” and see where it comes up on your favorite search engine…