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Re: Foobar

#41

Post by dansingerman »

jpfr wrote: post #34
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…

No puzzle here. You can only log in if Google has flagged your search topics. On google search, you have the variable window.location.search = "?gfe_rd=cr&ei=XXXGyZiVNHoFcuF8Qe7wYHACw&gws_rd=ssl" That string is appended to the url of the iframe: src=" https://foobar.withgoogle.com/"+window.location.search

I don't see any mechanism that appends it from any search topics when you load https://www.google.com/foobar/

The code snippet will only load the URL with appended values if there are present in the parent URL: e.g. https://www.google.com/foobar/?some_query_string

Re: Foobar

#42

Post by dchichkov »

Seems to be broken "message: 'Error(6): Login unavailable. Try again later.',"

Stay away. They would just waste your time.

Re: Foobar

#43

Post by jbranchaud »

[deleted] wrote: post #36

[deleted]

If it is, then it isn't a very well designed experiment because Google is a reputable and trusted (?) entity, so it isn't much of a leap to give access (especially when one already has gmai, gcal, etc. running in other tabs).

Re: Foobar

#44

Post by kushagra_ »

pilsetnieks wrote: post #30
UUMMUU wrote: post #28

I would imagine, if this came out today, it's something related to the military. foo.bar == FUBAR? Maybe?

foo, bar, and baz are commonly used placeholders for function and variable names in programming examples.

but foobar or FUBAR abbreviated form of fu*d up beyond all recognition this could be related to hangar one as some one pointed out

edit: here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590018

Re: Foobar

#46

Post by jweir »

Examining the CSS class names there are:

'questions'

'terminal', 'console'

'editor', 'ace_editor'

'count_down_timer', 'prompter' and 'resizer'

and the media rules for mobile, laptops, desktops

Re: Foobar

#47

Post by winterbe »

Seems to be some kind of text adventure game?

https://foobar.withgoogle.com/staticfiles/css/rhgame.e6cf5ce...

.console {}

.prompt {}

.terminal {}

.cmd .cursor.blink { -webkit-animation: blink 1s infinite steps(1,start); animation: blink 1s infinite steps(1,start) }

But it seems I've already failed before even clicking on the Login link:

...

Re: Foobar

#48

Post by jcfrei »

domas wrote: post #4

Looks like it's Google's recruiting for Python devs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080

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.

Re: Foobar

#49

Post by jpfr »

dansingerman wrote: post #41
jpfr wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No puzzle here. You can only log in if Google has flagged your search topics. On google search, you have the variable window.location.search = "?gfe_rd=cr&ei=XXXGyZiVNHoFcuF8Qe7wYHACw&gws_rd=ssl" That string is appended to the url of the iframe: src=" https://foobar.withgoogle.com/"+window.location.search

I don't see any mechanism that appends it from any search topics when you load https://www.google.com/foobar/ The code snippet will only load the URL with appended values if there are present in the parent URL: e.g. https://www.google.com/foobar/?some_query_string

That's why the link to foobar turns up in people's search results.
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