I'm guessing in order to successfully log-in, you've to trigger yourself as someone who's eligible? Otherwise, it looks like everyone else is wondering how to make it work.
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#12For those who are confused, the local papers say Google is looking to hire 30K people?
I believe this app/page is part of that push. Bunch of problems to complete.
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#13Could this have to do with Googles ARG Endgame[1]? It seems just cryptic enough to fit the bill.
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/7/6927605/welcome-to-endgame...
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#14"To login, you have to have logged in before"
Have you not heard the stories? Captain Barbossa and his crew of miscreants sail from the dreaded Isla de Muerta. It's an island that cannot be found except by those who already know where it is. http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Isla_de_Muerta
Except that's easily solved, by going there with someone who's been there before...
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#16I think this is very clever. Assuming this is something to do with recruitment (as the other comments suggest), then of course I find it intensely irritating and it confirms my pre-existing notion that I would never want to work for a company like Google. But, on the other hand, the people who devised this puzzle are clearly people who would be enticed by a puzzle like it, and would therefore think it was a good way to find like-minded people - and they are probably correct in that assumption.
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#17It seems if you have searched something which Google has interest in, you would be allowed to login. Below code on page points towards this:
var g=document.getElementById("g");g.src="https://foobar.withgoogle.com/"+window.location.searchRe: Foobar
#18I think this is very clever. Assuming this is something to do with recruitment (as the other comments suggest), then of course I find it intensely irritating and it confirms my pre-existing notion that I would never want to work for a company like Google. But, on the other hand, the people who devised this puzzle are clearly people who would be enticed by a puzzle like it, and would therefore think it was a good way…
Why do you find it intensely irritating? Google's a massive company that employees all sorts of different professions and types of people. This puzzle isn't targeting you, seems successful to me.
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#19It seems if you have searched something which Google has interest in, you would be allowed to login. Below code on page points towards this: var g=document.getElementById("g");g.src="https://foobar.withgoogle.com/"+window.location.search
My guess is that they have set up some pattern matching or keyword matching against search queries for some particular programming questions related to whatever they are hiring for. NLP, maybe?
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#20I think this is very clever. Assuming this is something to do with recruitment (as the other comments suggest), then of course I find it intensely irritating and it confirms my pre-existing notion that I would never want to work for a company like Google. But, on the other hand, the people who devised this puzzle are clearly people who would be enticed by a puzzle like it, and would therefore think it was a good way…
Why do you find it intensely irritating? Google's a massive company that employees all sorts of different professions and types of people. This puzzle isn't targeting you, seems successful to me.
Well, that's rather my point - the kind of people who would find it irritating are almost certainly not the kind of people they would be targeting with such a puzzle anyway.
Why do I find it irritating? Because it seems both elitist and adolescent, in a child-like "secret society" sort of way.