MG Siegler from Techcrunch does some investigation:
The idea of working at Google is a dream job for many engineers all around the world. So where better to go to get ready for this career than the Googlle Institute of Software Studies, right? Hold on a second. Read that name again.
Yes, it appears that some jokers in India are attempting to leverage not only Google’s name, but their logo and even favicon to trick people into thinking they their quite-possibly-bogus online university is related to the real Google somehow. Dubbed the “School For Future Software Engineers,” the Googlle Institute has a website that looks like it could some sort of legitimate online training school — if it weren’t for the sketchy naming, branding, and plethora of dead links.
:)) nothing new there.. the tech industry here has been pulling the hb1 switcher-roo on us tech workers for a long time.. good to see the tech industry on the other side of this.
Wouldn’t shock me if Google moved to India or at least hired a lot of people that live there. You can get really well trained people for a lot less money and the taxes are much lower.
Not saying they’d do that with everything but a lot of people working for Google work with server farms on the software end as techs and they could do that from anywhere.