Foo.Bar with Google?

#1

Post by mragh » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 3:04 AM UTC

I was Googling some Python topic when my search results page suddenly split in the middle with some text saying something to the effect of "You speak our language, would you like to take a test?", linking to http://www.google.com/foobar/ .

I followed it and was led to a pseudo-shell, where I then found some coding problems. I can return to the page to continue working on them.

I've searched around and haven't found anyone else talking about this. What is it?

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#2

Post by yzzxy » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 5:03 AM UTC

Recruiting

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#3

Post by Rhapso » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 5:08 AM UTC

I got asked to interview for google due to python code on github, others I know have had similar invitations to interview as a result of python experience. They seem to be on a hiring push right now.

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#4

Post by wlrd » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 5:55 AM UTC

What were you searching?

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#5

Post by kakakiki » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 9:04 AM UTC

Interesting. I tried logging into the site and it says "To login, you have to have logged in before. Confused? Search on..."

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#6

Post by lun4r » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:35 PM UTC

There are quite a few matches for "google.com/foobar" … https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22google.com%2Ffoobar%...

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#7

Post by samirmenon » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 2:54 PM UTC

What topic were you googling?

Also, its interesting that this account was created so recently... maybe this is Google itself.

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#8

Post by Blahah » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 3:00 PM UTC

lun4r wrote: post #6

There are quite a few matches for "google.com/foobar" … https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22google.com%2Ffoobar%...

Those are mostly just using foobar as an example path in documentation.

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Post by film42 » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

kakakiki wrote: post #5

Interesting. I tried logging into the site and it says "To login, you have to have logged in before. Confused? Search on..."

Apparently this link will show up in your search results, but only when "it finds you" can you login and start the coding challenges.

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Post by thearn4 » Tue, Nov 11, 2014, 3:19 PM UTC

Rhapso wrote: post #3

I got asked to interview for google due to python code on github, others I know have had similar invitations to interview as a result of python experience. They seem to be on a hiring push right now.

Same here, though in my case it was LinkedIn.