One of the Bing bait terms used by Google in its sting operation to catch the Microsoft search engine copying results has been whipped up into a domain name by a Google employee, and cheekily redirected to Google’s jobs page.

Google used a clutch of random cat-on-keyboard search terms to catch Bing out for copying its results. Hiybbprqag was one of those search terms, but now, hiybbprqag.com redirects to the Google jobs page, which reads “Let’s work together”.

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The perpetrator? One Chih-Chung Chang, a Google Taiwan employee, who registered the domain hiybbprqag.com on 1 February when the story first broke.

Is this an olive branch or a snide dig at Bing by Google? Shout out in the comments!

[via TechCrunch, source @gomery]

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