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Re:Foobar by pranavpr on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @09:51AM (#8590029)
It seems if you have searched something which Google has interest in, you would be allowed to login. Below code on page points towards this:

  var g=document.getElementById("g");g.src="https://foobar.withgoogle.com/"+window.location.search
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Re:Foobar by dangrossman on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:03AM (#8590092)
window.location.search returns the query string part of the current URL.

All that bit of code is doing is ensuring the frame on the page gets passed the query string the outer page had.

E.g. https://www.google.com/foobar/?hello -> https://foobar.withgoogle.com/?hello

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Re:Foobar by jordanpg on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @09:59AM (#8590058)
My guess is that they have set up some pattern matching or keyword matching against search queries for some particular programming questions related to whatever they are hiring for. NLP, maybe?
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