Google Wordmasters Challenge : Finding India’s Best Writers
September 21st, 2006
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Google Wordmasters Challenge aims to find and reward India’s best writers. The contest is open only to the first 300 participants and the deadline for entries is 25th September 2006. The contest will take place on Saturday 30th September 2006, at 11am.
The contest will be judged by a panel of respected professional writers. The Google Wordmasters Challenge shall be conducted simultaneously at Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Cochin, Pune, Indore and Ahmedabad. The winners will be announced around 30 October, 2006. Read the terms. Besides some exciting awards, you might land up with a Google job!
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sigh….ok guys its out. some bloke called s.k has made it. won a maruti swift! alls not lost yet, still two more places to go… keep your fingers crossed.
Will someone please tell me where the results are out? I neeeeed to know!! A S A P
hi friends,
I promise ,i’ll come with the
result…
(hi)
more info: http://wordmasterchallenge.fortunecity.com
hey hold it! not so soon…. that was all a hoax. this s.k guy was apparently joking (and how cruelly pathetically at that). alls not lost yet. keep your fingers crossed.
I’m sure the chap who claimed he won a Maruti Swift was joking. The prizes won’t be anywhere as lavish. Besides, Google wouldn’t have kept it a secret. The company would wish to get as much publicity as possible, right? Unfortunately, all it’s getting on these blogs is negative publicity from disgruntled participants!
I also visited (Participated) in GWM contest at New Delhi.
It was quite challenging but 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 gramatical angle 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, foloowing was what I could put togather !!!
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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 togather), 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
Now it is 2nd Nov, 2006… over 72 hours past the result’s deadline and yet the result is not out.
How can Google goof-up, it is simply not expected from the leader, naaa God of the Web !!!
where r they posted ….moreover, Is it been published somewhere!!!!
Results? Reeesulttts? Where are You? Come on out, Result…We are waiting for you.
Well It seems the Result for GWM has gone and hid itself in some nook or cronny !!!
Now it is over 3 days past the results deadline and yet the result is not out.
How can Google goof-up, it is simply not expected from the leader, naaa God of the Web !!!
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.
Passionate about writing the Google WordMaster Conest was something I was thrilled to read about. It took me no time to get myself registered. On the day of the contest, I set out anxious, confident and ecstatic – anxious because I had no idea of anything about the contest, confident [well, it was more of positive thinking], and ecstatic because after having heard of Google and its achievements I was simply thrilled to be able to tell people that atleast in some way I was linked with GOOGLE. {I really adore the bright colourful logo}. Expecting to find only 300 participants, I was bemused to see more! As I envyingly eyed the team with Google T-Shirts, I was escorted into an airconditioned auditorium by one of them after verifying my details. The Google presentation was an enlightening one, it also helped reduce the apprehension and flutter of butterflies in the stomach.
On receiving the ‘exam papers’, the words ” Angry ? Who Me? ” struck me as though I was seeing my thoughts in print and I instantly knew what I had to write. Well, 45 minutes was all I had – to draft, re-write, spell-check and word-count. Write! I did, Finish! I did. I also made a friend. Also the sight of so many interested in creative writing in these days of mechanical living, gladdened my heart.
The results we were told were to be declared on 30th October and we would be intimated via email. Passing those days filled with mixed feelings of joy [if selected] and sorrow [if not], were with me even during the festive season. Now that the D-Day has gone by I don’t know whether I am the winner or not – I wish I knew the results – this ‘being in the dark’ state is really killing. Oh Google, don’t serve a Googlee, make my dream come true and serve me a SMILEY.
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.
i tink its a wonderful chance to know yourself better!
My bad luck…… I missed the opportunity, is the result out, anyway congrats to those participated.
I have participated in the Google Wordmasters Challenge 2006. As per the terms of the competition, i am supposed to know who the winners are. After waiting for quite some months, I wrote to their bangalore office asking for the results and the list of winners. No response. I wrote to them through their website asking if i wasn’t right in maligning Google’s name by giving publicity to their callousness. No response. I rest. But let me aver that I had done exceptionally well in that competition.
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