La page Jobs de MSN propose un certain nombre de carrières en phase avec des sujets passionnants (datamining, supercalculateurs, recherche multimedia...). L'un des plus insolites est celui qui consiste, en cas de défaillance du moteur de recherche, à aller chercher les résultats dans d'autres moteurs de recherche et à les retourner à la main au client. Ca donne ça :
"Hand crafted results
When all else fails, and the ranking algorithms do not pass the confidence threshold, we fall back to delivering handcrafted results. Working on a team of approximately 132 other handcrafters in 26 worldwide markets, you will receive a user query, use all the available search engines to quickly scour the web for results, pick the top 10 results for this query, and send it on to the user. Successful handcrafters can typically find top 10 results for a real-time user’s query in less than 3.8 seconds. This is an opportunity to truly connect with customers, because the queries that get routed to you are precisely the ones that the engine cannot answer well. We will have adequate staffing to allow generous coffee and bathroom breaks.
If you are an expert at using at least 3 different search engines, well versed with American English/colloquial usage, and can type at > 149 words/minute as measured by the Simia-Lico method – come join us and delight users real-time! "
C'est original... Enfin, comme dirait un certain Mike qui bosse dans mon équipe "Imagine ce qui va se passer si on se met tous à soumettre des requêtes sur des sujets hyper obscurs"...
Ca va en faire des emplois...
Tags : Microsoft, Internet, Search, moteur de recherche, MSN
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