Googlle Opens A School In India. Wait. Read That Name Again.
02 Jan 2010 // 21 comments // Internet Development
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 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.
They apparently offer two certifications: “GCPA – Googlle Certified Professional in Advanced Computing,” which promises to teach you technologies related to “Windows Professional” and “Linux Professional.” The other certification is “GCPE – Googlle Certified Professional in E-Commerce,” which gives you more consumer-oriented skills, such as Photoshop. These courses take two years to complete, but the site notes that they also offer “Modular courses – duration 60 days to 90 days that can enhance your computer skills and offer you “GOOGLLE” certification, no matter what your specific requirement.” Oh goody, a Googlle certification.
The site also features a bunch of pictures of students sitting around outside at a campus, sitting in a classroom, graduating, the works. The only problem? As far as I can tell, there is no actual campus. Actually, almost every link on the site leads to dead end pages that don’t actually exist.
This “Googlle” is apparently a division of C.B.Online Pvt. Ltd., which is some sort of online business “solutions” provider based in India. Googlle’s headquarters is apparently in Orissa, India at the Rajarani Petrol Pump Complex. That sounds a lot like a gas station to me, but who knows. Regardless, I’m sure it’s not as nice as Google’s actual offices in India (they have four main hubs for the bustling and burgeoning tech scene there). Hopefully they have something to say about this site.
[thanks Deb]
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can you say Accepted? lol
I finished up all my courses Haarvard and they still have not emailed me my law degree.
cool it man. sounds awesome.
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………and nice little publicity by TechCrunch. I didn’t even know it ever existed in the first place.
And now they could even write ‘As seen in TechCrunch’.
I’m astonished that the links aren’t even nofollowed
Dude….write something good or don’t write !!
Did you run out of stories on a Saturday night
. You have made a bunch of jobless losers known to few million people in the world. Don’t waste your time on such sites. There are thousands of such sites from India.
Any link you click on is dead too:
Not Found
The requested URL /students.html was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
nice little lawsuit coming their way.
I bet the Video Professor has something to do with this.
I meant, I have seen schools like Harvard et al in India….
This is actually a non story. I have seen schools like Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford with fake or no accredition which are run out of ramshackle buildings.
Since this school put up a site, you guys are able to see it and its a hoot but for Indians this is all in a day’s work.
he, he if you click on on ‘contact’ on the top of the page, you can see that they are doing reverse outsourcing, and have european looking people in the call center
Learning School? As opposed to unlearning school?
this is f’ed up
most pages don’t seem to work, I bet it’s just a way for them to justify squatting on the domain name.
This is real w**! I am ashamed of my own people. They don’t even know how to imitate.
That is the lowest most scumbag thing I have ever seen, and I am from NYC!
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When will they open a Yaahoo school?