Google Wordmaster 2006 Details

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Hope it will be worth it and you get selected finally

Welcome back thilak!

I also visited (Participated) in GWM contest at New Delhi. It was quite challenging and there were no Desks, We were expected to write on sheet supported by Goodie Bag/Notepad sitting on an auditorium seat!!!

Contest included – 20 random Words…

You must Use all of them in your little piece between 150-200 words!!! The piece should be accurate from both grammatical angles as well as logical…
Somehow I got my Q Paper almost 5-6 Minutes into the contest, since the volunteer simply was not coming my way, hence In about 40 Minutes, following was what I could put together!!!
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Words Chosen from Given Option
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Rethink, Humane, Meditation, Viewpoint, Soothe, Accept, Hurt, Professional, Motive, Adamant, Einstein, Control, Democratic, Anger-Management (this was together), goodness, nerves, Adverse, Boss, Insight, Difference
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My Piece without a Spell Checker 8>0
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Serving with an NGO, for upliftment of Homeless Children, I am forced to rethink if our approach is really humane?

It all started when I suggested for Meditation for our inmates, to soothe their nerves and adjust to the adverse conditions. However, my boss had different opinions about controlling the problem, which includes usage of violence too.

In a Democratic Setup, Everyone is allowed to present their viewpoint; it is entirely up to the other person to either accept it or reject it. Now, not only has he scrapped my idea, He has started spreading bad words about my capabilities. I am really hurt by his unprofessional motives, He is adamant to create differences between me and my co-workers. Without having any insight on the matter, or even evaluating the effects of overall goodness it will create, He has become an Authority on Anger Management. I am no Einstein but I know how to study human behavior and make them better people.

Total 163 Words

Manjit: I was also given the same keywords.

i wonder when google will do this contest in malaysia. hurm…

another brand building strategy ….

good luck guyz!

Sounds fun! I’ve never heard about it before now What prizes can you get?

Tina: If I win, I’ll get a job in Google

I was @ Kolkata. My GOOGLE goodie bag did not contain the key chain. Lets hear from other participants at the venue (I wasn’t too curious to look inside theirs )

It was great FUN, especially the doubts raised by the participants ! I felt I was back in my school English class, having regressed (or grown) to Harry’s age.

About the Essay, I was so focussed on my piece, that I managed to do it in a CRISP, concise 110 words. Then, later I tried to expand it to at least 150 by APPENDING some sentences. Before I coul finish the latter task, the warning bell had rung, and I started jotting down hurriedly on the fair sheet, whatever I had scribbled on the draft.

The ultimate result would be for the GOOGLERS to judge; but who dares stops me from dreaming that I won… by a wide margin….
Thats it folks, do share your experiences…..t

Yeah, Most of the participants in Bangalore were professional writers, So I didn’t think that I would stand a chance of winning, but after listening to those stupid question… I got some confidence to write.

Even if I win, What will i get ?
A trip to Google Hyd ? Who cares ?

I attended the GWC at Hyderabad.
Throw your views on the below essay.

On the big day of decision there was disagreement from few adamant people who did not have insight of the work to be done. The boss requested them to rethink of their protest and suggested them to go for meditation to keep the nerves in control and accept the situation.

He explained that as a professional you need to have complete control on anger management and adjust according to the situation. The boss and the panel decided that every person in the group can imagine like Einstein in broad mind and share their viewpoint stating the differences of good and bad following their plans against others.
The boss assured a democratic decision would be taken under the control of panel with the common motive of benefiting and success of all without hurting anyone.
At the same time they have to confide the fact that the goodness of the work should not be denominated or demoralised as they all are working with common goal of understanding the problems and bringing out the solution serving the needs to optimum extent.

Word Count – 178

Thanks for sharing your essay with us, it sound pretty reasonable to me, but then its left in the hands of Wordmaster Judges…

Has any one got result????

Basant: Nope, Not Yet

Dear S,
Nice essay !!!

But… It seems that you have left out atleast 1 word, i.e. Humane.

Anyway, It is 31st Evening and still there is no news about the outcome?

Who are the winners and what did the wrote, will someone please enlighten me???

This waiting is really driving me nuts.

I’ve missed a few points in replicating my essay but it goes something like this…When are the winners gonna be out?

The 20 words-
Analyze practical imagine, inquisitive,horse sense, weird , absurd , change , direction , luck , observation , energy , know, give up , Eureka , Experiment , impossible , create , out-of-the-box , phenomena

‘If you were to analyze, the most number of inventions have occurred in the recent millennium. It’s no longer any practical necessity, but simply a keenness to imagine, to be inquisitive, to hazard an experiment… that leads an enterpriser towards a Eureka moment.

Nothing seems impossible to create anymore. Going by trends, the more out-of-the-box the ideas, the higher the chance of them growing into phenomena. Just think silicon implants!

Does it take rudimentary horse-sense to surface a groundbreaking idea on human behavior? Perhaps a weird sense of the absurd to conceive something that would change the direction of technology? Or just plain luck coupled with keen observation and energy to change fortunes.

I know for sure this age is ripe for the wannabe inventor. You can’t give up unless you’ve triggered every spark of ingenuity inside of you. So go ahead, think innovation. Think Google.’

Is it really Google or is it some third agency, who had cornered the contract to evaluate the writings? and then unable to excute the same.

There is a sense of Deja Vu, remember what happens in Meerut? 13-14 yrs old, Fifth standard students checking PG Papers?

Who is to say about the actual picture, Google is not forthcoming with the truth.

Yes Manjit, even I share the same feeling

Dear all,
Its quite perplexing that Google has not yet declared its GWM winners. I think it was some publicity stunt and we all have been goooooogled!!!!!

So, My Hunch seems to be correct after all?

I strongly feel that the much publicized event was actually an exercise to test the waters, maybe to retain people for some superBlog or to present relevant, human edited content – in the lines of askme.com, about.com, wikipedia.com et al.

It was totally outsourced job and the 3rd agency goofed up.

The Proofs of Goof-ups are many-
1. The invitations for the test were not very effectively communicated.

2. It was presented basically as an intro to Google’s various ventures and not actually as a contest attracting Talent.

3. Arrangements for the test involving people to generate IT Bytes using language were pathetic, to say the least. I am sure many people must have felt uneasy using pen paper, instead of a PC (at least I Did).

4. India is not very high on the Google’s agenda, then why this contest was held here only?

5. At some places, Contestants were given 60 Minutes and elsewhere just 45 Minutes. They organizers did not even have a clear-cut policy?

6. Even the Logo on Goodies Bag was somewhat different, meaning it was second grade job conceived, and executed locally, by equally proficient dumbos.

Manjit: I guess they didn’t make the results public, The winners must have been contacted privately, but still is it morally correct to do so ?

I have no doubt regarding Google Logo, they look to be authentic, but it was just a public stunt by Google.

And we wasted lots of our useful time on it (I’m ashamed of myself)

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I also visited (Participated) in GWM contest at New Delhi. It was quite challenging and there were no Desks, We were expected to write on sheet supported by Goodie Bag/Notepad sitting on an auditorium seat!!!

Contest included – 20 random Words…

You must Use all of them in your little piece between 150-200 words!!! The piece should be accurate from both grammatical angles as well as logical…
Somehow I got my Q Paper almost 5-6 Minutes into the contest, since the volunteer simply was not coming my way, hence In about 40 Minutes, following was what I could put together!!!
——————————-
Words Chosen from Given Option
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Rethink, Humane, Meditation, Viewpoint, Soothe, Accept, Hurt, Professional, Motive, Adamant, Einstein, Control, Democratic, Anger-Management (this was together), goodness, nerves, Adverse, Boss, Insight, Difference
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My Piece without a Spell Checker 8>0
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Serving with an NGO, for upliftment of Homeless Children, I am forced to rethink if our approach is really humane?

It all started when I suggested for Meditation for our inmates, to soothe their nerves and adjust to the adverse conditions. However, my boss had different opinions about controlling the problem, which includes usage of violence too.

In a Democratic Setup, Everyone is allowed to present their viewpoint; it is entirely up to the other person to either accept it or reject it. Now, not only has he scrapped my idea, He has started spreading bad words about my capabilities. I am really hurt by his unprofessional motives, He is adamant to create differences between me and my co-workers. Without having any insight on the matter, or even evaluating the effects of overall goodness it will create, He has become an Authority on Anger Management. I am no Einstein but I know how to study human behavior and make them better people.

Total 163 Words