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Comment Re:No comparison whatsoever (Score 1) 200

Why is one prioritized over the other[]?

Uh, because it's a linear listing - which means that one has to appear first, and the other afterwards? Do you think that all results should be displayed side-by-side?

Or, if you accept that search results have to appear in *some* order, how do you expect Google to know that you're planning a trip and not writing a school paper? Should Google be able to work out where you live, find the nearest schools, look up the History lesson plans and see that you've got a Chinese politics essay to hand in; or alternatively should it work out the median wage where you live and determine how likely it is that you'll be travelling to China?

Or, should it just wait for you to add *one extra word* to the search to clarify what you want, and decide for itself what most people are looking for if you're not that specific?

Comment Re:Well, they're a good indicator of intelligence (Score 3, Insightful) 672

Sure, but the question isn't "Why do you want to *work*?", it's "Why do you want to work *here*?"

The answer isn't designed to find out whether you need money at the moment, but why that particular position is the one you're after. Now in most cases that just changes your answer from "Because I need a paycheck" to "Because you guys were the first people who offered me an interview", and that's fine.

But if you're an interviewer and you have to choose between two people, one who answers "Because you're the only people who'll talk to me" and one who answers "Because your output seems interesting and your public image seems like somewhere I'd fit in" - who do you think would be more likely to be productive?

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