April 16th, 2008

The sorrowful task of finding Javascript news

Why is it that searching for Javascript inevitably returns piles of results for “Java”? Don’t the machines that serve up results know that they are two very different things, and I’m interested in the former, not the latter?

My employer is hiring right now for a Javascript Expert, and we keep getting applications from Java developers. This means, firstly, that people aren’t really reading the job description. But I went over to Monster and Workopolis, and sure enough a search for “Java” returns Javascript results, and a search for “Javascript” returns results for Java all mixed in.

a Google News search for “javascript” returns quite a few stories that are mere variations of this:

“Javascript is not enabled on your browser”.

Good one, big G.

Filed under AJAX & Javascript

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