Google 'lost face' because of a 15-year-old teenager

Tom Vendetta, a student in New Jersey (USA), wrote a fake press release, announcing that he has just become the youngest employee of the world's leading search company Google.

Vendetta posted the announcement via free I-Newswire service and signed the name of Google's Sonya Johnson spokesperson (the supposedly Vendetta character) with the brief content: " Tom Vendetta, 15, has officially joined Google, CEO Larry Page said the student will receive a relatively low starting salary, which will be transferred to a bank account to serve future learning. Page confirmed that Vendetta could not be at the company's headquarters but would work at home in a New Jersey suburb, and he was responsible for fixing the security bug in the Gmail service, which Google discovered when he accidentally visited. Visit your blog and appreciate the capabilities of Vendetta on JavaScript and AJAX ".

Fake information of Tom Vendetta on Google News.

Immediately after being sent, this news became the story of technology being spread to an incredible extent. The joke made the famous Vendetta temporarily. His Gmail mailbox received up to 400 emails in the first few hours.

What makes Google "humiliated" is that their news aggregation system also reposted the news. No one will doubt the accuracy of the article regarding the search firm when it appears on the Google News service itself.

The actions of Vendetta unknowingly showed that the Google News system did not authenticate press releases before posting them. "I am very sorry and just hope the hole will be overcome so no one else will do the same thing as I did, then regret it like I do now," Vendetta writes on her personal web. .

Google engineers are focusing on upgrading filters, checking and balancing information flow to ensure the truthfulness of news on their systems. Anyway, Vendetta felt comforted when an employee of the search corporation sent an e-mail saying they would not because of this and ruined his dream of working for Google.