Discovered by a Hacker news user in November 2014, the mysterious page was thought to be an obscure promotion for The Imitation Game, a film starring Benedict Cumberbatch as World War 2 code-breaker Alan Turing. The web address 146.148..62.204 still shows a page which looks similar to google.foobar - and to what Rosett encountered - but says "this code has been cracked" with the final word linking to The Imitation Game's website.
Called foo.bar, the system has been used by Google for the past few years and is triggered when a user enters certain search terms relating to coding languages like Python and Java. The search results page breaks open to reveal the message "You're speaking our language. Up for a challenge?" to which the user can decline once, request the message isn't shown again, or click "I want to play".
To Know How I was invited to Foobar in almost all possible ways. You can check out my blog post. Here.
I haven't been contacted by Google Recruiters. But I think Foobar is a great platform to showcase your skills and have fun at the same time. I personally loved the way google asks questions in the form of a story which makes it even more interesting to solve.
The code on this repository is for educational purposes. If you are taking the Google Foobar Challenge then I encourage you to write the code on your own because their is no point in copying. As I have given the challenge from 2-3 email ids so I have almost all the foobar questions but I won't be uploading the code to all.
Checkout story.md for the story line.