With all you hear about someone cheating using Google, or teachers disliking how much Google is used. This is a nice story how a person can use this “dangerous medium” to create good material. Am I the only one who see this little girl ending up with a job with a company like Google when she grows up?
Official Google Blog: We get letters (4)
7/01/2006 09:55:00 AM
Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team
Our inbox is filled with stories from people who tell us how they use Google, and occasionally we feature these stories here. If you have a noteworthy tale, write to us.
In the world of marketing, there’s always keen interest in knowing what the “target customer” does with the company’s products. What are these people really like? How do they use our products?
Well, now we know about one in detail. Meet Alex, age 12. She just completed 6th grade in the Seattle area. And she wrote this essay for her class. If we made Alex up, you wouldn’t believe us, so take a moment to read her report yourself.
Her dad Bill wrote to say that Alex “just totally loves doing research on the web and playing with making web sites. She did a cyber camp a couple of years ago, but most of what she knows comes from her mom” (who at the time led development of an online commerce business).
What’s more, Bill goes on to say, Alex “has just discovered geocaching” and he adds “I started teaching her python as a first programming language this winter, but she got bored until I could figure out how to do some visual stuff that was more engaging than console read/writes 
.” He also notes that she “just discovered usability studies, and has been seen “flipping through one of her mom’s several books on web design, engaging the reader, and ecommerce. Her dream job when she grows up is to be a technical program manager or web designer.”
To us, the ideal Google user sounds a bit like Alex – resourceful, keen to try new things, and clearly, someone who appreciates ease of use. So we’re really pleased that a number of our services meet her needs.
By the way – she got 106/100 for her essay (extra points for writing technique). Nice work, Alex! And a happy holiday weekend to our American readers. We’ll see you next week.
Tags: Blogging, Google, Interesting
I suppose that means Alex got a future job offer at Google, eh?
Her essay reads like much of it was copied from Google promotional material. If anything, it seems representative of the Internet plagiarism era.
A lot of it does seem copy paste, mind I wonder if her school runs there papers through one of the many plagarism tools. I’ve seen one in use by an English Teacher and she didn’t mind it as long as it stayed below certain percentage and it was properly cited. At age 12 I’m not sure that’s as much of an issue.
But strictly copied… I’d be curious where from exactly… I haven’t found any specific spots.
Giving a kid over 100 percent when she screwed up her to/too homonym in the final paragraph is the epitome of everything wrong with the No Child Left Behind Act.
That and the fact that Daddy obviously wrote the paper for her.
the paper was written soley by the child…..sounds like alot of jealous adults out there….