Some Indian Companies Blocked “Steve Jobs” Related Searches

The inspiring and brilliant Steve Jobs passed away on October 5 and, as expected, people around the world turned to the Internet to read more about this sad news. The interest was so high that “steve jobs” became the most searched phrase on the web that particular day according to Google Trends.

It was early morning here in India but when employees of some tech companies went to Google, looking for news around Steve Jobs, they faced an interesting problem – the corporate web filters blocked their searches. Here’s why:

Apparently, the word ‘Jobs’ was blocked by the corporate firewall to stop employees from searching for jobs in other companies. To discourage staff from finding employment at other companies, the word ‘Jobs’ has been blacklisted.

Ria Sharma says that, due to this keyword-based Internet filtering, employees of Mahindra Satyam, iGate, Cognizant and Genpact weren’t able to search Google or any of the other search engines for news related to Steve Jobs.

Luckily they must have had Internet on their mobile phones that didn’t necessarily have to pass through the corporate firewall.

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