One of Raymond Chen’s readers recently noticed that Google purchased AdWords for Raymond’s name. The destination of the sponsored link? http://www.google.com/jobs :)
This came up on our internal bloggers alias, so people started poking around to see what other bloggers / blog readership had outstanding “job offers.” Not being one for repetitive, manual computer labour, I let PowerShell definitively answer the question.
In a temporary Outlook message, I expanded the alias so that it listed the names of all members. I saved that into a text file, and ran the following script:
[C:\temp]
PS:6 > gc bloggers.txt -delimiter ";" |
>> % { $_ | where { $wc.DownloadString("http://www.google.com/search?q={0}" -f $_) -match "Want to work" } }
>>
Brad Abrams;
Eric Gunnerson;
Raymond Chen;
A bit easier than searching for the 965 members of that alias by hand!