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Comment by rikverc | Hacker News Reader

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.

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Disclaimer: my opinions are my own and not representing those of my employer or co-workers. I have no direct relationship to this project and haven't looked it up internally.

Has it occurred to any of you that we might do these things for sheer fun, because doing that is not only allowed but celebrated?

Once again a reminder that Google is, er, a company, whose aim is to, er, make money.

I'm not signed in to Google as a matter of course, and I block their ads, so I provide them very little value. As a result, I won't be able to use "foobar", whatever the hell it is.

Seems fair. Isn't really that irritating, is it? :-)

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.

What about people that uses Google Apps accounts? Are they subject to this (corporate)? What about people just use those accounts personally for their own domain? Are they out?

You're not out of the game. You can apply through all the normal ways - recruiters, ads, networking, etc.

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