So, a question is posed today by a colleague on immigration legislation in NZ - being the helpful character that I am off I head to the most widely used search engine in the world....
Some nano seconds after typing in my question, and indeed it was a question, up pop the usual number of responses (the number of characters exceeds the available space in this blog sadly). Now, one might expect that the most relevant information would appear at the top, after all, isn't that what search engines do these days? Alas, thwarted, evidently the most relevant link to finding our about employer sponsored visas for nz is a link to the employer sponsorship site for australia.... OK, so, is this then a question of, no one told the search engine concerned that they are in-fact not one and the same country?
Don't get me wrong, I love search engines, they are our friends, they are everywhere, and they are surely the best friend for any pub quiz fan who disguises a mobile device as a book, pen, glass of beer, or a flame..... but, seriously, sometimes one thing is not like the other and that is certainly true when you're talking immigration law.
Beware the evil search engine, never assume the first link is the right one. One could of course wax lyrical about the many types of search results one may not want to get, if you're ever perhaps unfortunate enough to be studying mythology and you want to check up what a centaur is, be sure not to type in 'man horse' - it will only end in tears!
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