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Re: Foobar

#91

Post by 3pt14159 »

Reef wrote: post #58
jcfrei wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very interesting but I wonder what the legal implications are. Some companies might file a lawsuit claiming that Google gains an unfair advantage if they continue to seek potential employees this way. I'm not saying I agree with this view but Google does have a HUGE potential in matching employees with their potential employers and might just turn the recruitment services industry on its head.

Is there a law which specifies which advantage is fair and what is not? Why should any company be forbidden from utilizing assets their employees legally developed, especially when they want to use that asset in pursuit of a key objective ("hire more smart people")? Should a large newspaper be forbidden from advertising their openings in the printed newspaper itself just because other newspapers failed to acquire com…

You'd have to argue that it is a perpetual monopoly due to the advantage - which I'd say is unlikely.

Re: Foobar

#92

Post by ilovefood »

I believe they track our search results and they check if some keywords are there.. I just made a crawler (again) to get some Python related sentences from the web and automatically append them to the search query with the ei=XKZAJDKLJ code... Let's see if that makes sense....

Re: Foobar

#93

Post by dorkrawk »

I had the "You speak our language..." message pop up while searching for some Python info and send me to Foobar a few days ago. So far I've just done one of the challenges. I'm sure it's a recruiting thing, but they seem like fun puzzles and it's obviously not the only way to get a job with Google, so good for them for building something fun.

Re: Foobar

#94

Post by felipebueno »

clviper wrote: post #25

In the name of the file /staticfiles/css/rhgame.e6cf5ce7.css, that RH is probably HR (Human Resources Game).

hmm nice catch :) It would make sense in portuguese as RH stand for Recursos Humanos (literaly Human Resouces).

Re: Foobar

#95

Post by theVirginian »

dorkrawk wrote: post #93

I had the "You speak our language..." message pop up while searching for some Python info and send me to Foobar a few days ago. So far I've just done one of the challenges. I'm sure it's a recruiting thing, but they seem like fun puzzles and it's obviously not the only way to get a job with Google, so good for them for building something fun.

I search for python stuff all the time and have never come across this link, I want to do some puzzles too!

Re: Foobar

#96

Post by rikverc »

1945795 wrote: post #80
bshimmin wrote: post #16

I 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 is this irritating? Google won't hire you iff you solve the puzzle, this is nothing more than a very popular way for institutions to generate free PR.

It is irritating because the "puzzle" involves having a history of searching for stuff that Google Foobar has tagged as relevant.

If your Google searches are not linked with your Google account or if you search using different search engines, you're out of the game.

Re: Foobar

#97

Post by shaaaaawn »

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Re: Foobar

#99

Post by troy1987 »

This seems really dumb!

https://foobar.withgoogle.com/staticfiles/js/landing.5252068... : !function(){ "use strict"; function a(){ var a=document.getElementById("login"); a.addEventListener("click",function(a){a.preventDefault(),window.launchPopup()},!1)} window.handleAuth=function(a){ a.logoutUrl ? window.location.href=a.redirectUrl : window.location.reload() }, window.launchPopup=function(){ window.open("/login/","AppLogin","resizable,scrollbars,status,width=600,height=400") }, a() } ();

This script handles the login. a object looks something like this : Object { message: "Error(6): Login unavailable. Try again later.", logoutUrl: "https://foobar.withgoogle.com/_ah/logout?continue=…ps://foob..., redirectUrl: "/denied/", allow: false}allow: falselogoutUrl: "https://foobar.withgoogle.com/_ah/logout?continue=https://ww...: "Error(6): Login unavailable. Try again later." redirectUrl: "/denied/" }

handleAuth() function will either take you tohttps://foobar.withgoogle.com/denied/ or just reload the page.

Google is just getting a tonne of analytics data.

Re: Foobar

#100

Post by tormeh »

rikverc wrote: post #96
1945795 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this irritating? Google won't hire you iff you solve the puzzle, this is nothing more than a very popular way for institutions to generate free PR.

It is irritating because the "puzzle" involves having a history of searching for stuff that Google Foobar has tagged as relevant. If your Google searches are not linked with your Google account or if you search using different search engines, you're out of the game.

I'm using plugins that means I'm not tracked that much. What would I see if I had such a history?

EDIT: Turns out you need a history of googling this stuff. My heavy Python phase in school was timed wrong it seems.

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